Perversion Quotes - page 2

Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion? (Natsuki Takaya)
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! View quote
Heinrich von Treitschke
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. View quote
Beau Willimon
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. View quote
Joey Skaggs
Say, He Whom God shall make manifest will surely redeem the rights of those who truly believe in God and in His signs, for they are the ones who merit reward from His presence. Say, it is far from the glory of Him Whom God shall make manifest that anyone should in this wise make mention of His name, if ye ponder the Cause of God in your hearts. Say, He shall vindicate the Cause through the potency of His command and shall bring to naught all perversion of truth by virtue of His behest. Verily God is potent over all things. View quote
Báb
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity. Something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. View quote
Harvey Milk
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Islamic State (IS) is a perversion of the religion of Islam - a poisonous death cult that poses an existential threat. (David Cameron)
No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it. And one of the main sources of reaction and opposition is radical Islam-the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death. View quote
George W. Bush
The evil of marriage, as is it practiced in the European countries, extends further than we have yet described. The method is for a thoughtless and romantic youth of each sex, to come together, to see each other, for a few times, and under circumstances full of delusion and then to vow eternal attachment. What is the consequence of this? In almost every instance they find themselves deceived. They are reduced to make the best of an irretrievable mistake. They are led to conceive it their wiser policy, to shut their eyes upon realities, happy, if by any perversion of intellect, they can persuade themselves that they were right in their first crude opinion of each other. Thus the institution of marriage is made a system of fraud; and men who carefully mislead their judgement in the daily affair of their life, must be expected to have a crippled judgement in every other concern. View quote
William Godwin
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? View quote
John Fowles
[O]f that scientifically practical skill which produces the greatest effect with the least possible expenditure of material and work, the instances are comparatively rare. In too many cases we see the strength and the stability which ought to be given by the skilful arrangement of the parts of a structure supplied by means of clumsy massiveness, and of lavish expenditure of material, labour, and money; and the evil is increased by a perversion of the public taste, which causes works to be admired, not in proportion to their fitness for their purposes, or to the skill evinced in attaining that fitness, but in proportion to their size and cost. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
We have attacked the traditional interpretation of the economics of slavery not in order to resurrect a defunct system, but in order to correct the perversion of the history of blacks - in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil. View quote
Robert Fogel
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. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion. View quote
Julian Barnes
That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality. View quote
Russell Brand
I suppose that corruption by definition is a deviation, a perversion from the intended path. View quote
Russell Brand
That is not the dream. That is a perversion of the dream. We are the people of the civil rights movement. We are the ones that must stand for civil and equal rights. Equal rights. Justice. Equal justice. Not special justice, not social justice, but equal justice. We are the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement. They are perverting it. They're perverting it, and they're doing it intentionally. And they're selling us a line of global nonsense. (Glenn Beck)
It is the spirit of Salem-the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal-infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world. View quote
Michael Moorcock
The gospel and the first church were never hostile to women nor treated them as minors. ... When Christianity became a power or authority, this worked against women. A strange perversion, yet fully understandable when we allow that women represent precisely the most innovative elements in Christianity: grace, love, charity, a concern for living creatures, nonviolence, an interest in little things, the hope of new beginnings-the very elements that Christianity was setting aside in favor of glory and success. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Most emphatically I do wish that the people should have the right to recall the decision, and authoritatively to stamp with disapproval what cannot but seem to the ordinary plain citizen a monstrous misconstruction of the constitution, a monstrous perversion of the constitution into an instrument for the perpetuation of social and industrial wrong and for the oppression of the weak and helpless. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways. View quote
Linus Torvalds