Contradiction Quotes · Page 41

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that…

— Fidel Castro

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in…

— Swami Vivekananda

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose…

— Giovanna Cau

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

— Roger Rosenblatt

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to…

— Dorothy Height

When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate…

— Tom Hughes

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

— Patti Smith

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky

Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to…

— Hannah Arendt

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to…

— Richard Baxter

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty…

— Robert McKee

Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white…

— Veena Sud

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive…

— Mao Zedong

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

— Albert Camus

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...…

— Rula Jebreal

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

— William Empson

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a…

— Gottfried Leibniz

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

— Sherilyn Fenn

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the…

— Albert Camus

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

— Tom Clancy

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,…

— William E. Simon

What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of…

— Michael Faraday