Perverse Quotes

You're in essence going to shoot in the head a $626 million industry. It doesn't make any sense . . . You're sending the message that foreigners need not apply. I just think it's one of the most perverse, and poorly thought through and counterproductive pieces of legislation you could imagine. - Dennis Jett

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. - Edgar Allan Poe

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. - Bible

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: / Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. - Bible

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. - David Brooks

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. - Nan Fairbrother

Too many companies had perverse incentive systems that rewarded hot short-term performance and didn't provide any penalties for long-term problems. - Russel Kinnel

Today, private landowners live in fear of the ESA. Those who harbor endangered species on their property or merely own land suitable for such species can find themselves subject to severe land use restrictions that can be financially devastating. This creates a perverse incentive for landowners to preemptively 'sterilize' their land to keep rare species away. Such sterilizations benefit no one - least of all the species the ESA was established to protect. - David Ridenour