A Quote by Isaac Asimov

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov
American - Scientist
January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

Edgar Allan Poe

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

Peter Drucker

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Anthony Trollope

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

Clifford D. Simak

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

Otto Gross

Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

Mason Cooley

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Susan Sontag

The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.

Thomas Aquinas

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

Larry Niven

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Octave Mirbeau

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Maya Angelou

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

Dave Hickey

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

John Dewey

The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.

Gary Yourofsky

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

Matthea Harvey

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