The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam. — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.” — Richard Dawkins 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
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“So you’re dating Mr. Freaky Vanderperv, at least you’re not dating a guy with no skills and no interest in you sexually!… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than… — Charles William Chadwick Oman Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 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
“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
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
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
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new… — Ming-Dao Deng 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
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis 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
Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others… — Gary DeMar 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
I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war. — John Rae Copy Share Image
“His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.” — George Dangerfield Copy Share Image
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
