Top 42 Perversions Quotes
#1. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
#2. We talked about the nice poor people who went to the electric chair; and we talked about the rich bastards who didn't. We talked about religious people who had perversions. We talked about a lot of things.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
Aristotle.
#4. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Faina Ranevskaya
#5. Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
Anais Nin
#6. You can just enjoy your little perversions alone. God gave men a hand and five fingers for a reason, you know.
Lora Leigh
#7. In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established.
Sri Aurobindo
#8. The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, a multiple implantation of "perversions." Our epoch has initiated sexual heterogeneities.
Michel Foucault
#9. ...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.
C.S. Lewis
#10. Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
Frantz Fanon
#11. To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.
Greg Carlson
#12. Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory ...
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#14. At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided cliches, as amusing as pottery ducks on suburban walls.
J.G. Ballard
#15. When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.
Michael Gira
#16. I don't judge the men and women who chat with me and reveal their secrets and perversions. How can I? My secret, my obsession, is worse than any of theirs.
Alessandra Torre
#17. The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.
Mason Cooley
#18. The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
George Eliot
#19. Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.
J.G. Ballard
#20. Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.
Aldous Huxley
#21. Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions.
Tim Gunn
#22. Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression
Brandi Lynn Ryder
#23. In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.
Edward St. Aubyn
#24. Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
Arthur C. Clarke
#25. Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
Louis Aragon
#26. I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
Arthur C. Clarke
#27. The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws and attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister bizarrerie.
H.P. Lovecraft
#28. Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body ...
Barry Unsworth
#29. If you equate going to the bathroom with sex and sexual perversion, you should see a therapist.
The rest of us go in there to take a leak.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#30. The point of life is not to get anywhere - it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create - who and what you are, and then to experience that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#31. Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. But hey, if there's one bright side to your dying, it's that you aren't around to tell me things I don't like hearing. I'm sorry. That was a dickhead thing to say. I need a condom for my mouth.
Adam Silvera
#34. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,
Larry Kramer
#35. You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.
L.J.Smith
#36. It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'
Laz Alonso
#37. Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
Geoffrey Wall
#38. The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.
Buddy Valastro
#39. We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don't have to let them define you forever.
Debbie Macomber
#40. It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson
#41. How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.
Paul Collier
#42. We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn.
Suyog Ketkar
