Top 100 Quotes About Perversion
#1. I've always understood pornography to be an industry growing ever more granular, appealing to smaller and smaller segments of idiosyncratic perversion.
Drew Nellins Smith
#2. 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.
Werner Herzog
#3. Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. J.H. Blunt.
Arundhati Roy
#4. We can contain such secret misery, perversion.
Ben Marcus
#5. If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.
Gary Hansen
#6. The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.
Anthony Esolen
#7. If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion.
Germaine Greer
#9. There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.
John Cameron Mitchell
#10. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
Antonya Nelson
#11. I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.
Woody Allen
#12. Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion? ... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.
D.H. Lawrence
#13. Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
Ann Druyan
#14. Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
John Kennedy Toole
#15. High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor ...
Milan Kundera
#16. Why is it always the self-righteous pricks who turn out to be complete perverts? You know it gives the rest of us a bad name. Own your perversion, dude.
Lexi Blake
#17. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
#18. Clouds of confusion
rolled into illusion
He veils perversion
forcing her coercion
Her body he takes
while she flies away
unbelievable, she's invisible
Diana Rasmussen
#19. In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.
Gunnar Myrdal
#20. There's a thin line between perversion and love.
Ryohgo Narita
#21. Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.
Geoff Ryman
#22. Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#23. Jude collected them in almost exactly the same way the Pied Piper had collected rats, and children. He made melodies out of hate and perversion and pain, and they came to him, skipping to the music, hoping he would let them sing along.
Joe Hill
#24. Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.
Marty Rubin
#25. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
H.G.Wells
#26. For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.
Augustine Of Hippo
#27. When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
Beau Willimon
#28. The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
Tony Blair
#29. All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression - of evil, even - for it to be worth getting into bed for.
Hanif Kureishi
#30. It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.
George Carlin
#32. Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
Margaret Fuller
#33. Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
Julius Evola
#34. 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.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#36. His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.
George Dangerfield
#37. What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann
#38. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
John Fowles
#40. That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.
Russell Brand
#41. I believe that one of the reasons for crime, perversion, and the evils of modern mankind is that we have lost belief in the certainty of God being just, holy, and righteous, and that He will judge the world.
Billy Graham
#42. Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#43. The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren
#44. The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Tony Kushner
#45. Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs
#46. We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion ... ah, persuasion.
Bella Abzug
#47. What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
David Graeber
#48. The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
Winston Churchill
#49. Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled "repentance." If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
Boyd K. Packer
#50. The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
Anais Nin
#52. Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,
a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.
Thiruman Archunan
#54. I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.
Volkmar Sigusch
#55. War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state ... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!
Heinrich Von Treitschke
#56. That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
William Penn
#58. Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
Andrew Comiskey
#59. In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.
Ron Brackin
#60. What is the universe but a treacherous perversion of scale?
John Zande
#61. Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
Anthony Burgess
#62. Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
John Kennedy Toole
#63. Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.
John W. Miller
#64. He'd been a cop long enough to know what actual perversion looked like and it sure wasn't two guys or two women going out to dinner and holding hands.
Tere Michaels
#65. Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass
#66. A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).
Philippe Lejeune
#67. The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude Atherton
#68. Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun
Dan Savage
#69. I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.
Dan Fante
#70. Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God's Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it.
Billy Graham
#71. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
J.G. Holland
#72. Science is but a perversion of itself
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.
Nikola Tesla
#73. This heretical perversion of the message of Jesus that most often passes for Christianity today has been aptly termed churchianity. People go to church, profess a belief in Jesus totally devoid of a belief in his teachings, and then self-righteously proclaim themselves to be "Christians.
Robert S. McElvaine
#74. Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.
Billy Graham
#75. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
#76. The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Harvey Milk
#77. Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?
Torgny Lindgren
#78. You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
Louis C.K.
#80. Enoch considered the defiance in the painted eyes and the subtle perversion expressed with curling lips, and then he touched a pair of frozen lips as if the smiling portrait might whisper some secret word into his hand.
W.H. Pugmire
#81. The bungling, the mendacity and the cynicism of the men responsible both for the disaster and the attempt to cover it up could not be dismissed as a regrettable perversion of Soviet values: they were Soviet values, as the Soviet leader began to appreciate.
Tony Judt
#82. The Establishment Clause ... stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders ... that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.
Hugo Black
#83. I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
Margaret Mead
#84. For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it
Rachel Caine
#85. I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins
#86. [P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.
Georges Bernanos
#87. The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
John Dewey
#88. They make a mess," Jared told her. "Tulip foliage dies and turns an ugly yellow. Pansies aren't hardy. The bloom stalks on lavender drop their buds. Violets seed themselves." His tone of voice made it clear that seeding oneself was a perversion.
Sheri S. Tepper
#89. When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Samuel Johnson
#90. War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.
John Rae
#91. [Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.
Winston Churchill
#92. A male after my own heart. And don't knock perversion, you judgmental little fuck. You never know when you might find it appealing.
J.R. Ward
#93. 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.
Jim Butcher
#94. It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.
Ravi Zacharias
#95. Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We'd view it as a great perversion of natural law - but we wouldn't deny it.
Gavin De Becker
#97. It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
James Dyson
#98. Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
#99. A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because it exploits the very features that make us successful as a species or as an organism.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#100. Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
Chuck Todd
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