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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
Truth
Every
Carefully
Easily
Recognized
Propaganda
Deliberate
Fact
Most
Cultivate
Crack
American
Front
Common
Against
Newspapers
Perversion
Fascism
Fascists
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins
Love
Harmless
State
Consider
Only
Adult
Part
Dearly
Texas
Discuss
Perversion
Consenting
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft
You
Together
People
Strong
Dark
Crime
Insanity
Feelings
Group
Religious
Deliberately
Practical
Bunch
Perversion
Expressed
Chosen
Guarantee
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
Corruption
Evil
Own
Only
Excess
Substance
Which
Perversion
Defect
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
Legal
Oppression
Lasting
Authority
Inflicted
Heavy
Which
Perversion
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann
Life
History
Long
Long History
Poisonous
Ideas
Call
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
German
Which
Perversion
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
Antonya Nelson
Me
Youth
Culture
Girl
Hypocrisy
Beauty
Preaching
Teenagers
Characters
Seem
Perfect
Instance
Absorb
Abstinence
Like
How
American
American Culture
While
Modesty
Perversion
Capture
Imagery
Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.
Douglas Murray
Islam
Interpretation
Everywhere
Say
Worst
Possible
Destructive
Muslims
Rather
Nevertheless
Most
Obviously
Truer
Version
Undoubtedly
Than
Being
While
Perversion
Plausible
ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
Hamza Yusuf
Islam
Similar
Toxic
Were
Label
Very
Perversion
Militant
Who
Actions
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Harvey Milk
Religion
People
Single
Other
More
More People
True
Name
Been
Friends
Than
Any
Perversion
Reason
Slaughtered
The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.
James Clapper
Secular
Islam
Group
Muslim
Brotherhood
Case
Variety
Term
Umbrella
Very
Egypt
Movements
Which
Perversion
Al
Largely
Al-Qaeda
Violence
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
James Dyson
You
Capitalism
Before
Extreme
Something
Trade
Paid
Perversion
Even
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs
Hatred
Feared
Deviation
Looked
Target
Any
Prejudice
Perversion
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass
Parents
Relation
Degrading
Parenthood
Between
Like
Looks
Cloning
Children
Perversion
Right
ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.
Peter Bergen
Abortion
Doctors
Islam
Sanctity
Christian
Some
Unborn
About
Unborn Child
Attack
Islamic
Clinics
Child
May
Just
Explain
Perversion
Beliefs
Why
Fundamentalists
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves
Love
Finance
Call
Intellectual
Began
Human
Hold
Warm
Human Love
Perversion
Now
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Tony Kushner
Love
You
Love Is
People
Ugly
Way
Say
People Say
Give
Attacking
Part
Most
Human
Being
Center
Your
Perversion
Profoundly
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
World
Every
Christianity
Almost
Accommodate
Essence
Prejudices
Perversion
I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.
Yuna
Day
Every Day
Dark
Every
Too
Else
Favorite
Eye
Eyebrows
Tried
Shadow
Brown
Faced
Mascara
Stuff
Beverly
Beverly Hills
Hills
Bunch
Decay
Anything
Anything Else
Bar
Urban
Chocolate
Use
Perversion
Palette
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion.
Harvey Milk
Religion
Fact
Perversion
Reason
Slaughtered
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