Perversion Quote by John Rae Download Open image “War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.” — John Rae ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perversion Pornography Stories Universal War War stories
That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations,… — John Rae Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise. — John Rae Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image