Contradiction Quotes

In the contradiction lies the hope.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

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

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

All concord's born of contraries.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

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