Quotes and Sayings About Contradiction

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Contradiction #Obsessed #Humans

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Government #Self #Contradiction

You need contradictions to make an ideal.
-- Alex Shakar

#Needs #Contradiction

Woman's at best a contradiction still.
-- Alexander Pope

#Women #Contradiction #Stills

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
-- Anne Michaels

#War #Stalking #Contradiction

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

#People #Contradiction

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
-- Audre Lorde

#Inspiring #Harmony #Contradiction

Art can contradict Science.
-- Austin Osman Spare

#Art #Contradiction

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-- Ayn Rand

#Thinking #Literature #Contradiction

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

#Law #Competition #Contradiction

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
-- Ba Jin

#Soldier #Revolution #Contradiction

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

#Inspirational Life #Contradiction #Middle

All concord's born of contraries.
-- Ben Jonson

#Contradiction #Born

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

#People #Doctrine #Contradiction

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

#Exercise #Two #Contradiction

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
-- Carl Braaten

#Church #Contradiction #Missions

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
-- Chaim Potok

#Dark #Strange #Contradiction

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
-- Clive Barker

#Thinking #Horror #Contradiction

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Philosophy #Contradiction #Form

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

#Overcoming #Impossible #Contradiction

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
-- Danielle LaPorte

#Desire #Contradiction #Contradictory

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

#Faces #Slave #Contradiction

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

#Contradiction #Abolition #Capitalism

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
-- David Harvey

#Running #Long #Contradiction

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.
-- David Lilienthal

#Country #Emotional #Contradiction

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
-- David Sheff

#Black And White #World #Contradiction

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

#Art #School #Contradiction

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
-- Edward Teller

#Understanding #Contradiction #Deeper

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
-- Elie Wiesel

#Beautiful #Skinny #Contradiction

Holy War is a contradiction of terms...
-- Elie Wiesel

#War #School #Contradiction