8 Quotes Tagged: perversion

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Chastity — the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/78190.Remy_de_Gourmont" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Remy de Gourmont">Remy de Gourmont</a>.

Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.