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deforms

«To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.»
«Christianity exceeds all other faiths in its power to deform and finally invert the mental process»
«When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.»
Author: Leon Blum | About: Motherhood | Keywords: deform, deforms, preserves
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
«I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.»
«All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.»
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
«A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: deforms
«In nature there is no blemish but the mind: none can be called deformed but the unkind»
«What a deformed thief this fashion is»