Deflection Quotes

“What is sitting behind your judgments? What fears are you coddling?”
― Akiroq Brost

“Once upon a time there was much talk of the apathy of the masses. Their silence was the crucial fact for an earlier generation. Today, however, the masses act not by deflection but by infection, tainting opinion polls and forecasts with their multifarious phantasies. Their abstention and their silence are no longer determining factors (that stage was still nihilistic); what counts now is their use of the cogs in the workings of uncertainty. Where the masses once sported with their voluntary servitude, they now sport with their involuntary incertitude. Unbeknownst to the experts who scrutinize them and the manipulators who believe they can influence them, they have grasped the fact that politics is virtually dead, and that they now have a new game to play, just as exciting as the ups and downs of the stock market. This game enables them to make audiences, charismas, levels of prestige and the market prices of images dance up and down with an intolerable facility. The masses had been deliberately demoralized and de-ideologized in order that they might become the live prey of probability theory, but now it is they who destabilize all images and play games with political truth.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Something wrong?"
"No," Vince said quickly, forming a faint smile before seeming to reconsider. "Well, my gum lost its flavor. But I think I'll recover.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“...confessing one truth can be a good way to deflect from others.

[the Rev. Jack Brooks]”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Blaming others for our poor choices is assuming that others are as irresponsible as we are, and that they are invested in us enough to take time to be that irresponsible on our behalf.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Simply because someone can give us a host of convincing reasons why something will work does not mean that the thing that they advocate for ever worked or ever will. What did work however, was their ability to distract us from what actually does work.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think his Wikipedia page is probably more detailed than what Logan wrote. Getting Logan to talk about himself was always like trying to pull teeth … from an angry dragon using a pair of chopsticks while wearing mittens. Guess he’s still the king of deflection.”
― Emma St Clair

“I think his Wikipedia page is probably more detailed than what Logan wrote. Getting Logan to talk about himself was always like trying to pull teeth … from an angry dragon using a pair of chopsticks while wearing mittens. Guess he’s still the king of deflection. (Page 100, Just Don't Fall)”
― Emma St Clair