Top 147 Perversion Quotes & Sayings

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

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

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

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

War is a perversion of sex.

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

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

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

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

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

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

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.

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.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

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

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

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

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.

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

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

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

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?

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.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

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!

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

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.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

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

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

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

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

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

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

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.