War is a perversion of sex.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

— Aristotle

Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.…

— Phil Robertson

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

— James Dyson

“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?”

— John Kennedy Toole

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“We can contain such secret misery, perversion.”

— Ben Marcus

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.…

— Aleister Crowley

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the…

— Chuck Todd

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

— Wallace Stevens

Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any…

— Julius Evola

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence…

— Milan Kundera

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

— John Fowles

“he'd been a cop long enough to know what actual perversion looked like and it sure wasn't two guys or two women going out…

— Tere Michaels

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence…

— Tony Blair