Distortion Quotes

133 quotes by 123 authors

The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some… — Howard Zinn
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system,… — Thane Rosenbaum
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and… — Umair Haque
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do… — Jean Baudrillard
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us... — C.S. Lewis
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the… — John Petrucci
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence. — D. A. Carson
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with… — Eugene H. Peterson
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on… — Edward Kennedy
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the… — Dweezil Zappa
We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. Â In addition, we must be capable of stating problems… — Jacque Fresco
As Hoffman later lamented, â€œThe reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. — Joanna Hoffman
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point,… — Larry Graham
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is… — Jane Roberts
So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned… — Naji Sabri
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. — Ron Paul
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or… — Wilhelm Reich

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