Quotes About Perversion

I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction.

You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)

evacuar en público era angustioso o imposible; un trauma para el que nuestra civilización no nos prepara, una herida profunda en la dignidad humana, un atentado obsceno y lleno de malos presagios, pero también la señal de una perversidad deliberada y gratuita.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Evil is only good perverted.

Perversion is the erotic form of hatred.

Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?

Canned food is a perversion, Ignatius said. I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

The flesh would fain be indulged upon the account of grace: and every word that is spoken of mercy, it stands ready to catch at, and to pervert to its own corrupt aims and purposes. To apply mercy, then, to a sin not vigorously mortified, is to fulfil the end of the flesh pon the gospel.

there is in the sadist — good as he may be, indeed the better he is — a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

E]very action taken by us, no matter how simple or ridiculous, is regulated under some institutional rule or policy. . . . This is done so we will become pliant and submit to every whimsical command of guards, staff and administrators no matter how perverted or criminal-directed. … This puts the fear of God into the hearts of those prisoners out in the general population.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Through this perversion of things it has happened that the knowledge of Christian grace, of faith, of liberty, and altogether of Christ, has utterly perished, and has been succeeded by an intolerable bondage to human works and laws; and, according to the Lamentations of Jeremiah, we have become the slaves of the vilest men on earth, who abuse our misery to all the disgraceful and ignominious purposes of their own will.

The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.

Transformando a los hombres en mercancías y dinero, este perverso mecanismo económico ha dado vida a un monstruo, sin patria y sin piedad, que acabará negando también a las futuras generaciones toda forma de esperanza.