Distortion Quotes

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

A half truth is a whole lie.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.