But I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self - interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences. (michaelcrichton.com)
Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition. (religion-online.org)
But such systematic distortion, immediately recognized by people from the the Third World, is why they have pressed so hard for a document stating a preference for «noncommercial forms of mass communication,» as they have done in UNESCO. (religion-online.org)