Perversion Quotes

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

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

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.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

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

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.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

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.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

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.

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.

War is a perversion of sex.

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

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

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