Distortion Quotes - Page 5

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 kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

Howard Zinn

Justice, Political, Support

Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.8, Routledge

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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 community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state — through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies.

Umair Haque

Meaningful, Lying, Real

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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

C. S. Lewis

Energy, Sin

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 the old politics of race against race.

Edward Kennedy

Book, Gay, Race

"America's moment of truth" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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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 distortion/fuzz elements.

Dweezil Zappa

Different, Elements, Definitions

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As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Joanna Hoffman

Reality, Spurs, Fields

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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, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

Larry Graham

Religious, Healing, People

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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 not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

Jane Roberts

Lying, Space, Matter

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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

Lying, Justice, Abuse

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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 flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

Wilhelm Reich

Truth, Fighting, Profound

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Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'

Marilyn Ferguson

Men, Effort, Community

Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

Emma Watson

Progress, Quality, Our Society

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When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Ayn Rand

Reality, Mind, Absolutism

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

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The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

Michael Medved

Christian, Religious, War

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Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued.

Doug Casey

Government, Regulation, Cleansing

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The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Pat Swindall

Christian, Religious, Firsts

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All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Feelings, Literature, Covering

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Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.

Daniel Levitin

Children, Age, Peers

"Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

Memories, Wind, Illusion

Cynthia Ozick (1996). “Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing”

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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

C. S. Lewis

Energy, Sin, Holy

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Chris Reifert

Guitar, Names, Band

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Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

Seth

Philosophy, Giving, Trying

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Francis Bacon

Deception, Done, Want

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The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the statutory machinery. That philosophy ignores the American people's decision to give Congress '[a]ll legislative Powers' enumerated in the Constitution. They made Congress, not this Court, responsible for both making laws and mending them.

Antonin Scalia

Philosophy, Order, Law

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Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

Frederick Wiseman

Lying, Manipulation, You Like It

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