#distorted

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#distorted #most #slightly #truths

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ↗

— James Madison

#constitution #distorted #end #form #government

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#bears #caricature #distorted #grossly #into

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#beautiful #distorted #makes #mirror #which

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#distorted #industries #marketplace #our #pressures

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#dreams #even #hopes #misdirected #need

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#age #began #distorted #early #early age

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man