I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U. S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.
I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.
Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.
The only aberration is denial of self.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?
We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
