“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
Source: About Anthony Weiner on the 2016 Democratic National Convention. At an interview with The New York Times'<nowiki/> Maureen Dowd. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html (July 29, 2016)
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
“The pervert."
"He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant."
"Semantics.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates
Source: Deadhouse Gates
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) Americna minister
Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.
Crowds (1913)