All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in… — Anonymous 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
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
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill 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
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
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
“The truth is, people are ravenous for sex, sociopaths for love. I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors,… — John Kennedy Toole 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
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
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 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
In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
