Quotes About Inversion

También en sus relaciones conyugales los roles hembra-varón se invierten muy pronto; Emma pasa a ser la personalidad dominante y Charles la dominada. Ella impone el tono, se hace siempre su voluntad, al principio sólo en cuestiones domésticas y luego en los otros dominios: Emma se encarga

The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

What's up?" "The opposite of down

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.

El espectáculo en general, como inversión concreta de la vida, es el movimiento autónomo de lo no viviente

backasswards!

I'd grown up with a woman who could make a heap of stolen parts sound truer than the truth. She could shade a story I'd heard a thousand times until all at once the meaning inverted and it became its own opposite. I was her kid. I operated inside the ethics of my profession, but I could spin like nobody's business.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

head over heels is not just a cliché; it is also, when you think about it, a faintly absurd one. Our heads are usually over our heels.

And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.