“ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. ”
- Jerry Falwell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 473
“ A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ”
- Stanislaw Lec- Copy
- 2.3K
“ All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 349
“ I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ”
- Sally Kempton- Copy
- 1.6K
“ My girlfiend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine'. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 2K
“ Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ”
- James Madison- Copy
- 2K
“ A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
- 927
“ Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. ”
- Benjamin Constant- Copy
- 555
“ It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 3.6K
“ As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 698
“ A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. ”
- Hugh Kingsmill- Copy
- 816
“ A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 819
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