Distorted Quotes

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison

Government, End, Historical

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers

Experience, Person, Through

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Anybody, Whose

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse

Words, Different, Thoughts

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Happy, Together, Old

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
John Henrik Clarke

Age, History, School

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. Wilson

Brain, Often, Constant

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, Beautiful, Makes

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
John Bradshaw

Life, Truth, Pain

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History, Black, Idea

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
Henry Louis Gates

Past, Real, Here

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Christopher Lasch

Values, Capitalism, Modern

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Dangerous, Truths, Slightly

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead

Great, Matter, Meaning

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Daisaku Ikeda

Education, Good, Evil

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow

Life, Violence, Both

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
Howard Dean

Change, Power, Truth

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Phil Collins

Last, Few, Picture

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
Paul Wolfowitz

Political, Human, Career

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Soros

Reality, Grow, Market

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
Brian Ferneyhough

Through, Path, Left

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov

Today, Democracy, Picture

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
Tracy Chapman

Dreams, Real, Until

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
Shakti Gawain

Long, Feelings, May

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Kristin Hersh

Music, Play, Media

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
Barbara Amiel

Society, Whatever, Vision

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.
Jim Sensenbrenner

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
Bob Kane

Person, Cannot, Read

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.
Allison Williams

Happy, Crazy, Self

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?
Pieter Zeeman

Impossible, Result, Period

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