#distort

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#distortion #poetry #beauty

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. ↗

— John Berger

#lies #media #society #change

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. ↗

— Larry Elder

#behavior #charity #corporate #distorts #less

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

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. ↗

— Loretta Young

#distorts #every #face #fall #feature

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

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. ↗

— John Grierson

#between #conflicts #disguised #distinction #distort

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

#direct #distorted #education #ends #evil

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#get #movie #things #very #weirdly

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first