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Quotes About Perverted

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.
~ Horace Walpole
She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the exhausted, the frustrated, and the perverted and prevents them from sympathizing with others.
~ Alaa Al Aswany
You know God does not manifest Himself," Halgan shouted. "That is also heresy. The Revelation is not corporeal. You know this. Why do you persist in this perverted speech?" "I like perverted. Maybe you would, too, if you gave it a chance." "Leave my men alone," Rakan said coldly. "Degenerate." Ringil smooched a kiss at him.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
~ William Blake
Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.
~ Samuel Johnson
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
~ Pliny the Elder
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
~ James F. Cooper
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When we read Christ's words "my kingdom is not of this world," many of us are inclined to understand it as an argument against Christian involvement in politics, for example. Instead, Jesus was saying that his kingship does non arise out of (Greek: ek) the perverted earth but derives from heaven.
~ Albert M. Wolters
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
~ G. B. Caird
There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.
~ William Temple
How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?
~ Elie Wiesel
It was loud. It was crowded. I hate crowds. I had to make small talk with a bunch of people I don't know, and I'm terrible at that. And some guy I'd just met wanted to do perverted things to me with noodles." - Adrian Broussard, page 15
~ Ally Blue
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
~ Jan Hus
Stop talking. It makes the bleeding worse. Also, I don't want to hear your perverted farm animal fantasies." "It wasn't a fantasy, baby. The pig and me, we danced." She puts a finger to my lips. "Hush. The doctors will be here soon with a straitjacket and, if you're good, ice cream." When I open my mouth to say "pistachio," she clamps her hand over my mouth and yells, "How's it coming, Kas?
~ Richard Kadrey
It is a crime to mislead public opinion, to utilize for a deadly task this opinion which has been perverted until it becomes delirious.
~ Émile Zola
The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.
~ Amin Maalouf
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
~ Winston Churchill
to speak, as Leopold's officials did, of forced laborers as libérés, or "liberated men," was to use language as perverted as that above the gate at Auschwitz, Arbeit Macht Frei.
~ Adam Hochschild
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
~ Bernard Tschumi
Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.
~ Lewis Grizzard
El mundo es un asilo de pervertidos.
~ Aldous Huxley - Contrapunto
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~ Johannes Brahms
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
~ Jonathan Mayhew