Contradiction Quotes · Page 8

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was…

— Marge Piercy

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

— Naomi Watts

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

— Dorothy Height

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

— Blaise Pascal

“Can making half the print small save the whole thing from its inherent contradiction?”

— Zia Haider Rahman

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

— Michel de Montaigne

How to sell a contradiction? You come and go, you come and go.

— Culture Club

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

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it…

— Hamza Yusuf

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without…

— Jeff Gannon

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

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

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

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that…

— Monique Wittig

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

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs…

— Steven Pinker

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the…

— William Hazlitt

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be…

— Bjork

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the…

— Terence McKenna

The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't…

— Stephen Colbert

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.…

— Richard Baxter

“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

I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

— Jeff Vandermeer

Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

— Martin Buber

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

— Nas

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

— Richard Steele

“When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.”

— Ade Santi

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

— Matt Dillon

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.”

— Harper Lee

“In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.”

— Trevanian

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

— Jean Cocteau

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

— Anonymous

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

— Mother Teresa

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

— George Bernard Shaw