The nearer she came
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow
Perversity
Louis B. Mayer is
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation… he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light… the appeal of the movies is beyond the … Read more
Perversity is the human
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. Edgar Allan Poe
Money is an instrumentality
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present, been money issuing powers we may justly attribute all the economic and political ills of … Read more
A man would still
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity – he would create destruction and chaos – just to gain his point…and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hate Gucci,’ said
I hate Gucci,’ said Francis. ‘Do you?’ said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. ‘Really? I think it’s rather grand.’ ‘Come on, Henry.’ ‘Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.’ ‘I don’t see what … Read more
Out of sheer perversity,
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. Dave Hickey
Could that have been
Could that have been what happened to the human race – a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? Clifford D. Simak
Profanation and violation are
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature’s daemonic law. Camille Paglia
But there is that
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul. Caitlin Thomas