Social Distortion Announced

Famous quotes containing the words social, distortion and/or announced:

    “I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happy necessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    “This is our fate: eight hundred years’ disaster,
    crazily tangled like the Book of Kells:
    the dream’s distortion and the land’s division,
    the midnight raiders and the prison cells.”
    —John Hewitt (b. 1907)

    “In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper. All rose, exchanging smiles.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)