I regard my nature as holy, and every deviation from its instinctive tendency, I regard as a perversion-a sin.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
He came to think that the movement represented a perversion of the intellect.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
What a perversion of the ideal of freedom in the development of character, to suppose that it could only reach perfection by a consciousness of superiority; by having some one who should control him bow down before him!
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes