Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Carl Braaten Copy Share Image
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions. — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
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