Warped Quotes
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The Cross alone has flown the wave. But since the Cross sank, much that's warped and cracked Has followed in its name, has heaped its grave.
(Harold) Hart Crane— 1920 'The Mermen', in The Dial, no.85, Jul.
This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.
john j. mearsheimer— Chapter 6, Great Powers in Action, p. 211
Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
charles sprague— Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.
iain banks— “The Passed Pawn,” Chapter 4 (p. 390)
To the well-fed it seems cowardly to complain of tight boots, because the well-fed live in a different world-a world where, if your boots are tight, you can change them; their minds are not warped by petty discomfort. But below a certain income the petty crowds the large out of existence; one's preoccupation is not with art or religion , but with bad food , hard beds, drudgery and the sack. Serenity is impossible to a poor man in a cold country and even his active thoughts will go in more or less sterile complaint.
george orwell— Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
The belief that the conditioned derives from the unconditioned, wrong from right, represent the most fatal error and the one most fraught with consequences that is ("et la plus lourde de conséquences qui soit", Fr.) This believe gave rise (or engender) incalculable harms; it has obliterated (or obstructed or cancelled) the religious consciousness and warped the moral judgement; morevoer, it has created an abyss between science and religion, and brought generations of men to atheism.
african spir— p. 40 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Lo, where the Stage, the poor, degraded Stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age!
charles sprague— Charles Sprague, Curiosity. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Aware that in Roe it essentially created something out of nothing and that there are many in this country who hold that decision to be basically illegitimate, the Court responds defensively.... I do not share the warped point of view of the majority, nor can I follow the tortuous path the majority treads in proceeding to strike down the statute before us. I dissent.
— Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court, dissenting in Thornburgh v. American College of Obst. & Gyn., 476 U.S. 747 (1986).
Aware that in Roe it essentially created something out of nothing and that there are many in this country who hold that decision to be basically illegitimate, the Court responds defensively.... I do not share the warped point of view of the majority, nor can I follow the tortuous path the majority treads in proceeding to strike down the statute before us. I dissent.
— Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court, dissenting in Thornburgh v. American College of Obst. & Gyn., 476 U.S. 747 (1986).
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.
— Peter Kropotkin, in Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1898)
...Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
curtis lemay— Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 560-561.
