Distort Quotes

85 quotes by 81 authors

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. — Jean Giraudoux
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Oliver E. Williamson
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying… — Stephen Batchelor
I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself. — Sharon Stone
Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism… — Janice Raymond
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. — Edward Abbey
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the… — Mitt Romney
I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression… — George Soros
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or… — Susan Sontag
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American… — Mike Gravel
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. — Robert J. Flaherty
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to… — Val Plumwood
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do… — U.G. Krishnamurti
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what… — John Grierson
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero

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