John Trudell

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

American Author

Holly Hunter

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

American Actress

James Fenimore Cooper

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

American Writer

Ernestine Rose

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

American Activist

Theodor W. Adorno

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

German Philosopher

Horace Walpole

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

English Author

John de Lancie

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

American Actor

Helen Keller

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

Samuel Adams

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

American Revolutionary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American Poet

The word has a strong negative judgment, often related to sexual behavior society rejects.

Negative Connotation

Be careful when using this term, as it can be very offensive and damaging to someone's reputation.

Media Sensitivity

'Pervert' isn't a clinical term; it’s informal and often used in a judgmental way.

Not Medical Term

Emphasizes the intentional misuse or distortion of something important or respected.

Manipulation

Using 'pervert' as a verb can suggest immoral or unethical intentions.

Negative Implications

Can be used metaphorically to describe the corruption of abstract ideas.

Figurative Use

Highlights how it can lead to misunderstandings when misapplied to beliefs or texts.

Misinterpretation Risk

It is used when something is altered so much that its original purpose is lost or changed.

Changes Meaning

 Our highest institution in our country was perverted. We are dealing with perverts here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the protest in different forms. Most importantly, the American embassy complained,

Afra Raymond: Three...

 because what happens if they turn out to be perverts and teachers and whatever?" So you have this odd sort of paradox where I'm happy for him to go into this space if I know who everybody else is, but I don't want anybody else to know who he is. And so you get this sort of logjam around identity,

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 are women sex addiction is seen by many as a convenient excuse for moral weakness but evidence is building that it is real and on the rise people's sex addiction are called perverts our sleazy or you know they're given the same set of names that people who drug and

Sex Addiction PIPE Taboo

 and the intensity just grew and grew and grew, until one night we came home from getting drugs, and he got angry with Myesha, and he started beating her, and he put her in a bathtub. Oh, he would use a belt. He had a belt because he had this warped perverted thing

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 Nonetheless, their predictions are perverted by a comparison that then does not carry through and change their experience. You've all experienced this yourself, even if you've never come into our lab to eat potato chips. So here's a You want to buy a car stereo.

Why we make bad...

 The world is my playground. I want to keep trigger-pullers trigger-happy. I want the rules to be as loose as possible. Because when the thing gets prevented in Chicago with the three million dead that perverts our political system beyond all recognition,

Thomas Barnett:...

 And so, I became convinced that it is this systematic corruption which is perverting economic policy-making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery, for the poverty, for the conflicts, for the violence,

Peter Eigen: How to...

 projects like this and so I became convinced that it is this systemic corruption which is perverting economic policymaking in these countries which is the main reason for the misery as a poverty for the conflicts for the

How to expose the...

 And he said, "Dan, what's wrong with you? Do you enjoy looking non-symmetric? Do you have some kind of perverted pleasure from this? Do women feel pity for you and have sex with you more frequently?"

Beware conflicts of...

 The root cause of our political dysfunction, the cause that endures across all election cycles and all administrations is the system, the perverted rules of the game,