“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable… — Otto Gross Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau 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
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
