Perverse Quotes

151 quotes by 140 authors

The world's perverse, but it could be worse. — Unknown Author
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit… — Emil Fackenheim
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet,… — Unknown Author
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some… — Ken Schoolland
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. — Robert Musil
To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a… — Daisaku Ikeda
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are… — Walter Benjamin
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least… — Ogden Nash
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse,… — Alfred Kinsey
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the… — George Orwell
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid… — David Kay
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory… — George Will
May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never… — Gregory of Nazianzus
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness… — Joni Mitchell
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated… — John Barth
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.… — Arthur Miller
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse,… — John B. S. Haldane
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. — Samuel Richardson

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