#pervert

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#bad #denigrate #emotionally #enjoy #fill

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#careful #facts #god #misunderstand #never

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#congress #constitution #courts #masters #men

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#autobiography #celebrity #drug addict #his #means

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #perverted #age

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#benefit #congress #day #desire #first

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. ↗

— Aeschylus

#beasts #female #masters #men #passion

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it. ↗

— Walter Lang

#sex #sin #sinful

Evil is only good perverted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#good #only #perverted

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗