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Quotes About Perversity

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
~ Unknown
Fuck!" he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for many, the greatest pleasure of which the human body was capable. The sacred and the profane, he supposed, the ultimate proof of the perversity of human nature, to make a curse of the very act that kept the species in existence.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
We must remember that mentacidal conditions are the result of illnesses created within the constraints of white supremacist culture. The choices Afrikans make occur within these constraints. As we know, if you swim in a sea of perversity you are bound to get wet.
~ Unknown
The Marxist has no doubt about the perversity of his adversary. The reactionary merely suspects that his adversary is stupid.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Just struggling with my own perversity.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
~ Numbers 22:32
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
~ Deuteronomy 32:5
He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
~ Deuteronomy 32:20
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
~ Proverbs 2:12
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
~ Proverbs 11:3
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
~ Proverbs 11:20
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
~ Proverbs 16:28
He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
~ Proverbs 16:30
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
~ Proverbs 22:5
He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
~ Proverbs 28:18
He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ëThe LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.í
~ Ezekiel 9:9
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
~ Matthew 17:17
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
~ Luke 9:41