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Contrary Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
- Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable…
- The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have…
More Contrary Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
- The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists… — Kate Adie
- In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson