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perversion
«More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.»
Author: Harvey Milk
| About:
Death and dying,
Religion
| Keywords:
For any, in name, in name only, name, naming, perversion, perversions, same name, single, slaughtered, slaughtering, slaughters, that name, The name, the same name
«Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.»
Author: John Henry Newman
(Cardinal)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
corruption, defect, excess, perversion, perversions, substance
«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.»
Author: Mark van Doren
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Jobs,
Poets
| Keywords:
perversion, perversions, render, report, report it, sentimental
«I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.»
Author: Molly Ivins
| Keywords:
adults, consenting, Consenting Adults, dearly, discuss, harmless, perversion, perversions, Texas
«The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent»
«No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Oppression
| Keywords:
exorbitance, heavy, inflicted, lasting, legal, oppression, perversion, perversions
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«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.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
| Keywords:
departure, detestable, in proportion to, marital, mortal sin, perversion, perversions, procreation, venial, venial sin, violation, violations
«Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
asylums, Bad Taste, baron, Barons, brutal, chow, cinema, colonization, condom, condoms, demagogy, electric, electric chair, engines, etc., etc, famine, floods, gangster, gangsters, gonorrhea, guillotine, horse racing, infanticide, lunatic, machines, perversion, perversions, poodle, poodles, poodle dog, prisons, prostitution, quackery, race horse, racing, reformatories, reformatory, revolutions, sabotage, Siamese, strikes, suicides, syphilis, wages