Perversion Quotes
103 quotes by 93 authors
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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
— Aldous Huxley
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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
— Molly Ivins
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Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
— Leon Kass
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion,…
— H P Lovecraft
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
— Thomas Mann
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is…
— Harvey Milk
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War is a perversion of sex.
— Alan Moore
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
— John Henry Newman
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity,…
— Henry A. Wallace
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What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or…
— Julian Barnes
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It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this…
— John Kennedy Toole
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
— John Fowles
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
— Anais Nin
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Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
— John Kennedy Toole
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The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and…
— H.G. Wells
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She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
— Henry Miller
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no…
— Roland Barthes
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