#perverted

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

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

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #evil #good #governing #most

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#entrusted #even #experience #forms #government

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

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #perverted #age

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

#diseased #mind #perverse #perverted #reverse

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#any #china #cruel #devoid #feelings

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