Quotes of Perversion - somelinesforyou

“ Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ 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

“ It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. ”

- John McCarthy

“ Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. ”

- Marty Feldman

“ One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ War is a perversion of sex. ”

- Alan Moore

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

- John Cornyn

“ When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ”

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Robert von Ranke Graves

“ Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… ”

- James Ellroy

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

- Louis Aragon

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

- Joseph Addison

“ 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. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It has been proven that the pig is the only homosexual animal. As this perversion is most prevalent in pork-eating nations, it is obvious that it gets into your genes through the meat. ”

- Tasleem Ahmed

“ 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. ”

- St. Francis De Sales

“ My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ”

- Germaine Greer
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