#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

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

— Joey Skaggs

#deviation #feared #hatred #looked #perversion

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

— Leon Kass

#children #cloning #degrading #like #looks

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. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#chosen #crime #dark #deliberately #expressed

War is a perversion of sex. ↗

— Alan Moore

#sex #war

Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is caught in miniature. The genius of the artist entangles perpetrators and victims in a sticky web of perverse delights, in which exploitation becomes collusion, the ripples of guilt spread outward, and the real criminal slips away. In the end, responsibility is lodged firmly with the consumer, forced – he must confess – by his own perverse desires, to buy into the values of this particularly black market. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#consumer #crime #criminal #decadence #guilt

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#erotic #erotic-literature #erotica #excite #form-of-art

When the gap between the rich and the poor is so huge that you can’t help pointing it out – that’s when you risk being labeled a pervert. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #inequality #perversion #funny

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