Perverse Quotes

151 quotes by 140 authors

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another — Charles James
There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its… — Eric Allman
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of… — Harvey Cox
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from… — George Gaylord Simpson
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the… — Ron Chernow
As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in… — Jesse Eisenberg
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same,… — Megan Abbott
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. — Terry Gilliam
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep,… — Ogden Nash
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential… — Jill Tweedie
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react… — David Ignatius
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them. — Sophocles
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. — Wolf Kahn
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get… — Donald Miller
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from… — Barney Frank
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might… — Stephen Jay Gould

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