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• The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

  Oliver Stone

  Wmd, Iraq, Campaigns

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• The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

  Hugo Black

  Expression, Church, Principles

  "Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421". Writing for the court, 1962.

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• Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Baby, Peace, Strong

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• 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

  Circles, Ideas, America

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• 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

  Doors, People, Waiting

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• 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

  Issues, People, Peaceful

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• To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Law, Opposites, Suffering

  "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

  Brion Gysin

  Real, Writing, Firsts

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• Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Eye, Abortion, Mind

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.55, Dubois Publishing

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• 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

  Fear, Men, People

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• You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Desire, Normal

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that 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

  Heart, Simple, Night

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

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• Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja at Waco. ... I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja" ... Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

  Jeff Cooper

  Couple, Warrior, Gun

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• The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Motherhood, Abortion, Female

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Gay, Males, Female

  Andrew Comiskey (1989). “Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual”, p.101, Charisma Media

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

  John Fowles

  Night, Risk, Lasts

  1965 The Magus, ch.19.

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• 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

  Taken, Winning, Style

  Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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• It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Dirty, Men

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• 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

  Men, Riches, Should

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• Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

  Anthony Burgess

  America, Victory, Democracy

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• 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

  Military, Mass Destruction, World

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Soul, Said, Canned Food

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.31, LSU Press

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• The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ambition, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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