Quotes about distortion (410 quotes, page 5)

“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

“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

“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)

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

Happiness, World, Love

“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

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

“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

“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)

“It's important to pay close attention to listening to a story, because a partial or distorted narrative of the facts, could lead to hate those who are innocent and to nourish affection for those who are hypocritical or false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È importante prestare molta attenzione all'ascolto di un racconto, perché una narrazione parziale o distorta dei fatti, potrebbe indurre a odiare chi è innocente e a nutrire affetto per chi è ipocrita o falso.
Source: prevale.net

Hate, Falseness

“It's important to pay close attention to listening to a story, because a partial or distorted narrative of the facts, could lead to hate those who are innocent and to nourish affection for those who are hypocritical or false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È importante prestare molta attenzione all'ascolto di un racconto, perché una narrazione parziale o distorta dei fatti, potrebbe indurre a odiare chi è innocente e a nutrire affetto per chi è ipocrita o falso.
Source: prevale.net

Hate, Falseness

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