Quotes of: Perversion Keyword

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

Joseph Addison

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

Monica Crowley

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

David Brooks

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

Anonymous

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

The Angels of Perversity

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

James Purefoy

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

Thomas Mann

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Robert Musil

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of .

Eyeless in Gaza

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

Needful Things

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

Terry Gilliam

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

Joey Skaggs

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

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

Harvey Milk

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Robert Graves

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Erik Larson