Quotes About Spin

Our political discourses have become shallow and naive, not only in descending to spin and smear, but also, more worryingly, in appealing to social and cultural feeling rather than to genuine issues of justice, power and freedom.

That is why the relentlessly modernist and progressivist projects that the politicians feel obliged to offer us ("vote for us and things will get better!") have to be dressed up with the relentlessly postmodernist techniques of spin and hype: in the absence of real hope, all that is left is feelings. Persuasion will not work because we're never going to believe it. What we appear to need, and therefore what people give us, is entertainment.

Mercy kicked out a leg and spun, hitting her target--her favorite tree. She called it Riley, having been driven to kick it after their first real meeting.

From the mild argument that "America had it coming" to the full fairytale that "America did it", what unites those who spin justifications about the crimes of radical Islam is that they have no sympathy for or interest in the largely Muslim populations of the poor world that it terrorises and oppresses.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Here on the outside of the ship, its spin-induced gravity was reversed. He stood upright but felt pulled toward the stars.