“Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.”
“To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant —because you're always going against the conformity of the group.”
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”
“The real things are apt to be deviant.”
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”
“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”