There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that… — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
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