Perversion Quotes

• 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

  Texas, Adults, States

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

  Harvey Milk

  Names, People, Facts

  "Need More Proof Being Gay Isn’t a Choice? Here It Is!" by Steve Siebold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Science is but a perversion of itself
  unless it has as its ultimate goal
  the betterment of humanity.

  Nikola Tesla

  Science, Technology, Goal

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• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Strong, Dark

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Miscarriage, Grumbling

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.

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• Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Abstinence, Form, Worst

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• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  John Henry Newman

  Evil, Excess, Substance

  John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). “The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas”, p.151, Sophia Institute Press

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• Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

  Dan Savage

  Fun, Next Week, Today

  Dan Savage (1998). “Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist”, p.146, Penguin

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• Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

  Colin Wilson

  Horizon, Longing, Romanticism

  Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Political, Politics, Oppression

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Twists, Abnormal

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• You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

  Louis C. K.

  Tourists, Prisoner

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• To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.

  Dave Hunt

  Atheist, Creator God, Escaping

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• 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

  Crush, Country, Sex

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• 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

  Imagination, Mind, Forget

  "The Dagger with Wings: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

  Robert Graves

  Intellectual, Finance, Humans

  Robert Graves (1965). “Mammon and the black goddess”

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  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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Truth, Cracks, Facts

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• Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

  Catherine Marshall

  Sex, Heart, Lust

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  Life, Jobs, Loss

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• Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

  Mason Cooley

  Tests, Capability, Survived

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• The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Successful, Men, Practice

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• 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

  Party, Way, Compromise

  "House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon plays a solid hand". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Thinking, Order

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