“Don’t walk away at the first sign of a contradiction or a problem. Sometimes scientific study needs to play catch-up to the… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in… — Jessica Hagedorn 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
So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The U.S. has always been a contradiction. It's always been a deeply protectionist, institutional place, where you're not allowed to smoke, and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
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
The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not hard to see why. Although it adds to our overall understanding of Benghazi, even a cursory read reveals sloppy errors… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized.… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions;… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
