Perversion Quotes

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

When you're arrested in New York City, there's a good chance you'll do the time without being convicted of doing the crime. It's a perversion of justice. - Donna Lieberman

Whatever the government of Pakistan has may have stated in its letter to Interpol must be a perversion of justice [and] must be a manipulation of the legal and judicial process in Pakistan. - Farhatullah Babar

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. - Robert Graves

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. - Thomas Mann

The way of dealing with it is not simply through security measures that governments have got to take to protect people but through tackling the roots of it which lie in extreme and fanatical teaching of this perversion of Islam. - Tony Blair

The trial would be the most significant in the last 30 years. This case symbolizes the Nazi perversion of medicine and science, and the application of medicine to commit the most horrible atrocities. - Efraim Zuroff

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent. - Archibald MacLeish

The meeting revolved around a very strong desire of people from right across the Muslim community in our country to be united, not just in a condemnation of the terrible terrorist attacks here in London but also to confront and deal head-on with the extremism that is based on a perversion of the true faith of Islam. - Tony Blair

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. - Mark Van Doren