Perverse Quotes

151 Perverse quotes by 140 unique authors

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way. — Abbi Glines
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… — Thomas Mann
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the… — Joseph McCabe
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world… — Leonardo Boff
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they… — James A. Baldwin
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will. — St. Catherine of Siena
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely,… — Simon Schama
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas
Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month… — Rose George
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those… — David Blunkett
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse… — Mo Ibrahim
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous. — Cate Blanchett
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and… — Mitch Kapor
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the… — Peter Garrett
Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall. — Kevin McDonald
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. — James Purefoy
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not… — Michael Gove
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for… — Iain Sinclair
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of… — Jess Walter

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