Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne — John Wayne 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 Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?… It lies in the heart of man, and not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot 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
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. — Faina Ranevskaya Copy Share Image
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — Wendell Berry 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
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands… — Jeff Cooper 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
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison 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
“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
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
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
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion. — Bella Abzug 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
“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
