The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners,… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the… — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
“A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the… — Mark Hatfield Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World… I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track,… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
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