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Gotham has fallen silent. The night is no longer broken by the sounds of crime. Children are no longer waken by the sudden crack of a gunshot. There are no more cries in the darkness. No tires screech as wailing sirens chase desperate men and women through narrow streets. In a way it is a Gotham I've always dreamed of. But this is no dream. This is a perversion. This is a nightmare. It is the silence of fear. A silence only broken by the sound of marching feet. A sound that echoes around the world. Marching feet. The rhyme of dictators. Our world is ruled by iron fist of the man of steel. – Batman	added by Multiverse-Goddess 3 years ago
We take government-sponsored trafficking very seriously. It's a perversion of any government's reason for existence : to protect rights, not crush them, the United States will not stand by as any government with a policy or pattern of human trafficking subjects The United States own citizens to this kind of oppression. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It shows a moral perversion on the part of Acosta himself. – Geoffrey Berman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion... ah, persuasion. – Bella Abzug	added by Normando 5 years ago
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. – John Wayne	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
This has nothing to do with homophobia, this is about parents protecting their children from perversion. – Elizabeth Johnston	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When a fellow like me looks at the landscape and sees the depravity, the perversion -- redefining marriage and telling us that marriage is not between a man and a woman? Come on Iowa! it is nonsense. It is evil. It's wicked. It's sinful. – Phil Robertson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Because of Trump’s perversion of conservatism, along with the devastating impact Donald Trump would have if nominated, I can not support Donald Trump were Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination. – Doug Heye	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Perception can sometimes lead to perversion" Beware – Jimoh Oluwatobi segun	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. – Francis de Sales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. – Edward Dahlberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Gotham has fallen silent. The night is no longer broken by the sounds of crime. Children are no longer waken by the sudden crack of a gunshot. There are no more cries in the darkness. No tires screech as wailing sirens chase desperate men and women through narrow streets. In a way it is a Gotham I've always dreamed of. But this is no dream. This is a perversion. This is a nightmare. It is the silence of fear. A silence only broken by the sound of marching feet. A sound that echoes around the world. Marching feet. The rhyme of dictators. Our world is ruled by iron fist of the man of steel.

– Batman

added by Multiverse-Goddess
3 years ago

We take government-sponsored trafficking very seriously. It's a perversion of any government's reason for existence : to protect rights, not crush them, the United States will not stand by as any government with a policy or pattern of human trafficking subjects The United States own citizens to this kind of oppression.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It shows a moral perversion on the part of Acosta himself.

– Geoffrey Berman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion... ah, persuasion.

– Bella Abzug

added by Normando
5 years ago

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

– John Wayne

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

This has nothing to do with homophobia, this is about parents protecting their children from perversion.

– Elizabeth Johnston

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When a fellow like me looks at the landscape and sees the depravity, the perversion -- redefining marriage and telling us that marriage is not between a man and a woman? Come on Iowa! it is nonsense. It is evil. It's wicked. It's sinful.

– Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Because of Trump’s perversion of conservatism, along with the devastating impact Donald Trump would have if nominated, I can not support Donald Trump were Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination.

– Doug Heye

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Perception can sometimes lead to perversion" Beware

– Jimoh Oluwatobi segun

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

– Francis de Sales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

– Edward Dahlberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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