Distorted Quotes

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.

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.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

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

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

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.

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.