Quotes of: Perversity Keyword

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Cate Blanchett

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

James Dyson

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

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

Augustine of Hippo

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

A Confederacy of Dunces

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

Leon Kass

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Scott Adams

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Mitch Daniels

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

Gina McKee

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Mo Ibrahim

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don't put a stop to it, though you won't lose everything - you can't lose everything;...

The Instructions

This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we believed, more good than harm would result. The way ...

You Are Not a Gadget

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

A Lost Argument

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

Lost for Words

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

Twisted Perfection