The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam. — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves 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
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just such a perversion of the due order of things.” — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
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
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
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it… — Hutton Gibson Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the… — Jacques Rancière Copy Share Image
“Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“Despite my suspicions of perversion though, his voice sounded clear-cut in that certain way that makes girls melt, or maybe just me.… — Elle Field 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“he'd been a cop long enough to know what actual perversion looked like and it sure wasn't two guys or two women… — Tere Michaels Copy Share Image
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people. — John le Carre 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
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. — Frantz Fanon 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
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain… — Chuck Todd 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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