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Aberration Quotes

When the exception gets mistaken for the rule.

These quotes use "aberration" to reframe periods often taken for granted, arguing that eras of Western economic dominance or the Cold War itself were Anomaly rather than a permanent state of affairs. The framing challenges assumptions about what's normal.

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better...

Quotes by Tom Winnifrith

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Quotes by Steve Coogan

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Quotes by Stendhal

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.

Quotes by Robert Lighthizer

Age Quotes

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was...

Quotes by Phyllida Lloyd

I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for...

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact,...

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.

Quotes by M. S. Swaminathan

Anomaly Quotes

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in...

Quotes by Kai Bird

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

Quotes by John Hickenlooper

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of...

Quotes by John Grierson

Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

Battle Quotes

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.

Quotes by Chazz Palminteri

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

Quotes by Andrea Thompson

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Quotes by Anatole France

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the...

Quotes by Alex Garland

Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'aberration' mean in the context of these quotes?
Here, aberration describes a period or condition treated as an unusual exception rather than the norm, applied to historical eras like Western economic dominance and the Cold War, as well as generational change.
Why do people search for aberration quotes?
People search for aberration quotes when writing about history, economics, or generational shifts, particularly when arguing that something widely assumed to be permanent was actually a temporary exception.
Is there a quote calling recent economic history an aberration?
Yes, one quote argues that the roughly 200 years when Britain and the U.S. were the top two economies were an aberration, predicting that pattern will eventually change.
Does this page include a quote reframing the Cold War?
Yes, one quote suggests the Cold War itself should be understood as an aberration, a wrong turn taken after 1945 rather than an inevitable outcome.
Is there a quote about generational change as an aberration?
Yes, one quote reflects on being part of the last generation without computers at school, suggesting that experience will eventually be seen as an aberration as technology becomes universal.

A more personal quote applies the same word to generational change, noting that growing up without computers may itself become an aberration in hindsight. See Age quotes for related reflections on generational shifts.