Perversion Quotes by Roland Barthes

More Perversion Quotes

Popular Perversion quotes from across the collection:

• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
• Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands… — Jeff Cooper
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco
• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley
• Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. — William Hazlitt
• The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever… — Mark Van Doren
• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten… — Gerald Early
• The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson

See all Perversion Quotes »