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Quotes About Perversion

A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).
~ Philippe Lejeune
tattooing or any other kind of heavyweight perversion—it
~ Weldon Burge
Well, this is all very Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom,' said the Doctor. 'It reminds me of the Court of Caligula on the days when they let school parties in.' 'You
~ Dave Stone
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
~ James Madison
brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
~ Douglas Adams
they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics – as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
~ Douglas Adams
been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
~ Douglas Adams
Afirmar que um sistema político pode suscitar entusiasmo apresentando-se abertamente como portador de uma "doutrina de ódio" implica olhar os partidários como loucos, doentes criminosos ou perversos. Será necessário, então, explicar como é que um povo inteiro ficou louco. Se o é por natureza, que ideia fazemos da natureza humana? Se o é por acidente, como é que nisso se tornou - ou cessou de o ser?
~ Alain de Benoist
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
~ Joseph Addison
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
~ John Cornyn
Ozzie grimaced. "It's a complete perversion of the magic. Horrible!" "But
~ Rachel Roberts
Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
~ Remy de Gourmont
But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.
~ Richard Dawkins
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.
~ Julian Barnes
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favourite perversion?
~ Julian Barnes
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.
~ Tim Smit
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
~ Louis Aragon
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
~ John Galt
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
~ James Madison
Sumner invented the phrase is, unfortunately, but typical of the perversion of words and phrases indulged in by our present-day "liberals" in their attempt to further their revolution by diverting the loyalties of individualists to collectivist theories and beliefs.
~ William Graham Sumner
Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.
~ David Dark
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
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.
~ James Ellroy