There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery 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
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
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
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson 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
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
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat 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
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
The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera 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
