Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. — Faina Ranevskaya 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
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of… — Georges Bernanos 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
War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war. — John Rae Copy Share Image
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing,… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were… — Douglas Adams 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 American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. — Henry A. Wallace 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
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess 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
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
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