Quotes About Distortion

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

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

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.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

Before writing was invented and before scientific archaeology started, word-of-mouth storytelling, with all its Chinese Whispery distortions, was the only way people learned about history.

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.

I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The

My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Somewhere beyond the curtainOf distorting daysLives that lonely thingThat shone before these eyesTargeted, trod like Spring.