Quotes about distortion
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Bertolt Brecht photo

“Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.”

Bertolt Brecht book The Trial of Lucullus

The Trial of Lucullus (1940), Brecht Collected Plays, vol. 4, p. 386.

History , World
Joseph Goebbels photo

“Communism is nothing but a grotesque distortion of true Socialist thought. We and we alone could become the genuine Socialists in Germany, or for that matter, in Europe.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Source: Letter to Count E. Von Reventlow (mid 1920s), quoted in Joseph Goebbels: A Biography https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185382/2015.185382.Joseph-Goebbels_djvu.txt, Curt Riess, Hollis and Carter, London (1949) p. 37

Communication
Koenraad Elst photo

“And that from historians who themselves have distorted evidence in order to satisfy certain political compulsions : apparently a case of what psychologists call projection.”

Koenraad Elst book Ayodhya and After

Source: 1990s, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)

Gilbert O'Sullivan photo

“When the evening is over,
put your head upon my shoulder
and I'll tell you something I believe is true:
happiness is me and you.
In a world so distorted,
where the worst is best reported
love may be something that will see us through
Happiness is me and you.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Happiness is Me and You" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Happiness is Me and You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otmtVnf_aGk (song on YouTube)

Happiness , World , Love
Robert B. Reich photo

“Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.”

Robert B. Reich (1946) American political economist

21 January 2022 https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1484223895297089539

Night , Women
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo

“The worst criminals were not the men who did the deed. The crime of mobs and courtiers, infuriated by the lust of vengeance and of power, is not so strange a portent as the exultation of peaceful men, influenced by no present injury or momentary rage, but by the permanent and incurable perversion of moral sense wrought by a distorted piety.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

Source: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)

Sense , Rage , Peace , Men
Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)