Eric Cantona Quotes

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Sanity is not statistical.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

I'm not normal.

We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.