#perversion

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

— John Cornyn

#faith #great #islam #perversion #world

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #carefully #common #crack #cultivate

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

— William Hazlitt

#almost #christianity #essence #every #perversion

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. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end

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. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#been #fact #friends #more #more people

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

— John Henry Newman

#defect #evil #excess #only #own

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

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual 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. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#consenting adults #consider #dearly #discuss #harmless

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#drugs #inspirational #memorable #perversion #poetry

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#fear #freedom #hypocrisy #literature #perversion