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The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
News has warped us now to what we thought our parents were. Our flags wave backwards in a non-directional wind force-fanning our irrationality and silent warmth that resists captivity or even calm. – Belinda Subraman	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices. – William Henry Harrison	added by Normando 4 years ago
Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable, and in some cases, criminal. – Ashley Etienne	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Men have the bloods of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the bloods of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped bloods of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends mankind lives to remember or they end up as the fools of their time,” – Janvier Chouteu-Chando	added by anonymous 5 years ago
The circumstances of this case are absolutely shocking, representing another horrific example of the Iranian authorities’ warped priorities, no one, regardless of age, should be subjected to flogging; that a child was prosecuted for consuming alcohol and sentenced to 80 lashes beggars belief. – Philip Luther	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
But as they say, ‘ The customer is always right. ’ I ’ll still send them out. Why disappoint the customer, even if they are a bit warped ? – Seller Nick Fisher	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I wish people would look at just how warped our society has become, we videotape pain and suffering, then we share it and we view it over and over. And I don’t doubt this story will be dead in two days and everybody [ will ] move on to something else and you still have a victim of a crime. – Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Something that wide spread, somebody just looking to disrupt things, some warped sense of ‘Hey, look what I was able to do.’ They’re probably just a step removed from people who actually commit acts of violence. – Ed Dorff	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
But the continuing fact that some people, born in the UK, with all the opportunities and freedoms that modern Britain offers, can nonetheless make those sorts of warped choices presents a serious societal and security challenge. – Andrew Parker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My husband is a good man, first of all, he's a deep person, but he has a great and warped sense of humor. He makes me laugh and entertains me. He's very secure within himself. – Dolly Parton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. – Dennis McKinsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. – Alice Childress	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

News has warped us now to what we thought our parents were. Our flags wave backwards in a non-directional wind force-fanning our irrationality and silent warmth that resists captivity or even calm.

– Belinda Subraman

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.

– William Henry Harrison

added by Normando
4 years ago

Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable, and in some cases, criminal.

– Ashley Etienne

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Men have the bloods of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the bloods of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped bloods of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends mankind lives to remember or they end up as the fools of their time,”

– Janvier Chouteu-Chando

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The circumstances of this case are absolutely shocking, representing another horrific example of the Iranian authorities’ warped priorities, no one, regardless of age, should be subjected to flogging; that a child was prosecuted for consuming alcohol and sentenced to 80 lashes beggars belief.

– Philip Luther

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

But as they say, ‘ The customer is always right. ’ I ’ll still send them out. Why disappoint the customer, even if they are a bit warped ?

– Seller Nick Fisher

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I wish people would look at just how warped our society has become, we videotape pain and suffering, then we share it and we view it over and over. And I don’t doubt this story will be dead in two days and everybody [ will ] move on to something else and you still have a victim of a crime.

– Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Something that wide spread, somebody just looking to disrupt things, some warped sense of ‘Hey, look what I was able to do.’ They’re probably just a step removed from people who actually commit acts of violence.

– Ed Dorff

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

But the continuing fact that some people, born in the UK, with all the opportunities and freedoms that modern Britain offers, can nonetheless make those sorts of warped choices presents a serious societal and security challenge.

– Andrew Parker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My husband is a good man, first of all, he's a deep person, but he has a great and warped sense of humor. He makes me laugh and entertains me. He's very secure within himself.

– Dolly Parton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.

– Dennis McKinsey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

– Alice Childress

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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