Besides, have we not seen that in moral insanity, or diastrephia, there are no apparent delusions, no errors of judgment, but a lesion of the faculty of volition, manifested by the perversity of ...
The New Cry of Wendell Phillips.
We are loth to impute this to willful moral perversity. Our only explanation is, that it comes from that dimness of the general perceptions which an intense and unceasing attention to a single ...
SUNY’s carnival of perversity
The sad truth is that much that goes on in the name of humanistic education today is little more than a carnival of perversity. It is orchestrated ... It is a further testimony of the moral chaos in ...
How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime
When I came out, I steeled myself to join a minority—only to find that my identity had become a marketing niche.
Emeka Nwosu’s perspective on media, politics and power in Nigeria (1)
moral perversity of the most bizare variety, occultism, kidnapping for ransom, banditry, religious extremism among others have become indelibly etched on the spatial and mental landscape.
Treatise on the Virtues
Moral virtue is so named from the Latin mos ... ¹ And Anthony says, in a sermon to monks, “If the will goes a gainst nature, there is perversity; if nature is followed, there is virtue.” ² Finally, a ...
French Domestic Life and Its Lessons
He resists encroachments, moral as well as material ... Through an early planting in the mind of the idea of perversity, his emotions are unduly bridled ; natural, healthy impulses are nipped ...
Harry Lime in The Third Man – The “Undead” Spectre Of Moral Corruption
Graham Greene ended up forming not only the ingeniously suspenseful and superbly ironic script of one of the greatest noirs ever made but also one of cinema’s most hauntingly life-like villains ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb & the Enlightenment
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity ...
World Drug Day: Pakistan from Bad to Worse
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” –Carl Jung The moment a problem surfaces, instantaneously one looks for an appropriate remedy for ...
Editorial - Scrap Malta’s passport scheme
No electoral success can justify the moral hazards of selling citizenship ... following the publication of more evidence of the perversity of the IIP scheme will not clean the blot that has ...