{"quotes":[{"text":"You have heard that evil is a perversion of the good. The greatest goods can be perverted into the greatest evils. The poor man has not the opportunities for covetousness and self-indulgence which the rich man enjoys. The unlettered man has not the opportunities for intellectual pride and arrogance which the scholar may succumb to. An irreligious man may prostitute the flesh; but it takes a 'religious' man to prostitute the things of the Spirit and the Church of God. Every gift, every insight, ever vision, every talent brings its demand for self-forgetfulness in sanctified service: each brings its opportunities for richer worship or for more damnable self-love. The slum labourer may pervert beer and steak to the sole end of abusing an indulged body. It takes a bishop to pervert episcopacy to the service of self-indulgence; it takes a monk to pervert the religious life to the service of pride.","author":"Harry Blamires","tags":["evil","perversion","pride","sin"],"id":3002,"author_id":"Harry+Blamires"},{"text":"Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.","author":"Benjamin R. Smith","tags":["death","madness","murder","perversion"],"id":32786,"author_id":"Benjamin+R.+Smith"},{"text":"You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["desires","perversion","royalty"],"id":94017,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","god","perversion","sin"],"id":111121,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["conditioning","perversion","teaching","violence"],"id":113198,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jennifer Birkett","tags":["collusion","consumer","crime","criminal","decadence","guilt","lorrain","perversion"],"id":119738,"author_id":"Jennifer+Birkett"},{"text":"Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["beauty","control","hate","love","perversion","repression","savagery"],"id":172204,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God’s Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["bible","billy-graham","god-s-word","judgment","perversion","sin"],"id":186875,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["ends","perversion","security","suffering"],"id":196862,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.","author":"Richard Brinsley Sheridan","tags":["morality","natural","perversion"],"id":210341,"author_id":"Richard+Brinsley+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}