Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just such a perversion of the due order of things.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction.… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka 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
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.”… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Your problem, you see, is that essentially you are a logical pervert, looking for a woman with a mutually compatible logical perversion.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap… — John W. Miller Copy Share Image
“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
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