Contradiction Quotes - Page 4

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

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

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

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

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

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.

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

All concord's born of contraries.

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

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.