#pervert

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

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

#constitution #distorted #end #form #government

Doode," George said. He'd practiced all morning but still didn't get it quite right. "Nope, more u, less oo. Duuude." "Dude." "Dude." "Okay, dude." George nodded. "How's it hanging?" Jack asked. "How am I supposed to answer that?" George looked at him. "I don't think Kaldar said anything about that. I guess 'good'? I don't get it. What's hanging anyway?" George shook his head. "Your stuff, you nimwit." His stuff...Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved in giggles. "Long, get it? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#fate-s-edge #funny #george #hanging #ilona-andrews

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#because #been #even #into #like

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

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#judgment #made #man #now #perverted

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. ↗

— George Gillespie

#hath #judgment #life #others #perverted

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

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

— Walter Lang

#sex #sin #sinful