“His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.” — George Dangerfield Copy Share Image
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“So you’re dating Mr. Freaky Vanderperv, at least you’re not dating a guy with no skills and no interest in you sexually!… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than… — Charles William Chadwick Oman Copy Share Image
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
“Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“he'd been a cop long enough to know what actual perversion looked like and it sure wasn't two guys or two women… — Tere Michaels Copy Share Image
