The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is… — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions:… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction.… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
