#perv

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#controlling #failed #gained #influence #life

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

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

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

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. ↗

— Barney Frank

#cite #course #education #effects #fundamentalist

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bear #being #carry #duty #even

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

— Walter Lang

#sex #sin #sinful

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. ↗

— Erik Larson

#disinclined #i #instantly #me #perverse

Evil is only good perverted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#good #only #perverted