But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. — Roberto Assagioli 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
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz 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
There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it.» Sara… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy. — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction. — Nas 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 practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
