Perversion Quotes

“We can contain such secret misery, perversion.”

— Ben Marcus

Abstinence is a perversion.

— Bill Maher

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

— Guy de Maupassant

Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?

— Natsuki Takaya

War is a perversion of sex.

— Alan Moore

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

— John Kennedy Toole

“That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.”

— Russell Brand

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

— John Kennedy Toole

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

— Louis C. K

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

— Billy Graham

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent

— Archibald MacLeish

“Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.”

— Joan Schenkar

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is…

— Ravi Zacharias

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion…

— Edward Dahlberg

“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.”

— Bryant McGill

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

— Aristotle

“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

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths…

— Ben Hecht

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Gunnar Myrdal

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

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

— Aleister Crowley

“Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive…

— Anonymous

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion…

— Margaret Fuller

The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability…

— Brock Chisholm

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque…

— Werner Herzog

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

[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

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these…

— Brion Gysin

Everybody gets plagued by indifference and monotony. The truth is, there are concepts that are constantly being repeated in this world, since…

— Kelly Cutrone

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social…

— Louise J. Kaplan

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to…

— John Kennedy Toole

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

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

— Milan Kundera

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)…

— Roland Barthes

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

— Dan Savage

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

— Mason Cooley

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

— Robert Graves