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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

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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

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When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

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

— Walter Lang

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Evil is only good perverted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

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