Pervert Quotes

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Both, Congress

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Mind, Joy

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

Words, Meaning, Tools

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Power, Others, Else

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'Rourke

Means, Read, Modern

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

Health, Conscience, Beyond

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Human, Accuse

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski

Men, Hurt, Pain

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards

God, Facts, Careful

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.
Michelle Branch

Nice, Girl, Sweet

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
Brion James

Fun, Character, Why

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
William John Wills

Truth, Used, Rare

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs

Government, Purpose, Desire

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
John Bates Clark

Power, True, Social

When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.
Paul Broun

Change, Against, Both

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