Contradictory Quotes

218 Contradictory quotes by 191 unique authors

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. — Charles de Gaulle
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly… — Felix Frankfurter
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking… — Eduardo Galeano
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the… — Emma Goldman
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful… — Junot Diaz
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to… — Junot Diaz
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So… — Rem Koolhaas
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity. — Madeleine M. Kunin
My father was a very contradictory man. — John Malkovich
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of… — Bryant H. McGill
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. — Robert De Niro
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's… — Edward Norton
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. — Tom Robbins
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if… — Hugo Weaving
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and… — Julian Baggini
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation… — Jose Saramago
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that… — Kiran Desai
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known… — Victor Hugo

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