Contradiction Quotes · Page 12

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

— Vivienne Westwood

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

— Gore Vidal

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

— Gore Vidal

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

— Allen W. Wood

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

— David Brion Davis

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

— Simon Barnes

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

— Philip James Bailey

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

— Richard Baxter

You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on…

— Joel Kinnaman

These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake…

— John Green

“If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over…

— Gary B. Ferngren

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a…

— Tom Stoppard

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly…As a scientist I remain…

— Joanne Simpson

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are…

— Thomas Hood

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

— Thomas E. Mann

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you…

— Hilton Als

“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

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la…

— African Spir

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

— Robert Adams

There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And…

— Esther Hicks

It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else;…

— Cato the Younger

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,…

— H. L. Mencken

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.'…

— Johnny Vegas

I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,…

— Ella Baker

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

— Stephen Covey

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

— Benjamin Franklin

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Patti Smith

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

— Helen Keller

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

— Richard Kadrey

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

— Duane Michals

“Confusion must prevail and Contradiction is a way of life.”

— Sharad Trivedi

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

— Anonymous

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

— John Burdett

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

— Elie Wiesel

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

— Albert Camus

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

— Janette Rallison

“You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?” I”

— Naomi Novik

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need…

— Billy Collins