Perversion Quotes
103 quotes by 93 authors
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Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within…
— J. G. Ballard
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're…
— Tony Kushner
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’…
— Oliver Stone
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All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
— Robert Graves
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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the…
— Anton Chekhov
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In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too…
— Hugo Black
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The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey…
— James Ellroy
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The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
— John Cornyn
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We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
— Bella Abzug
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of…
— Margaret Fuller
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Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
— Archibald MacLeish
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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
— John Wayne
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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant…
— Winston Churchill
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
— William Hazlitt
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