A Quote by Charles Bukowski

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
American - Novelist
August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Charles Bukowski

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Ray Bradbury

The left believes that we're an unwarranted, undeserving superpower because we're a racist, bigoted nation from our founding. So Obama presides over America's decline and tells everybody "get used to it. This is the new norm." The new norm is no full-time jobs. The new norm is government getting bigger. The new norm is you having no wage increases for 15 years. This is what the new norm is, as we entered the global marketplace. And the American people don't want any part of that. That's not America.

Rush Limbaugh

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

Sonny Sandoval

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

P. G. Wodehouse

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour.

Donatella Versace

I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity - a norm of returning good for good received. Such a norm is a necessity, I argue, because it helps relieve the strains on motivation of contributing to social cooperation when it comes into conflict with self-interest.

David Wong

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

Alfred Brendel

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

Pete Burns

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Jim Gilmore

There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

Noam Chomsky

There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

Sidney Cohen

...Dealing with these sexual disorders, you ask 'what is it supposed to look like?' 'what's the norm?' The norm is the heterosexual design of the body

Scott Lively

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

Punit Renjen

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.