Contradictory Quotes - Page 4

• Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Self, Terrorism

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.153, City Lights Publishers

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• What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

  Gerhard

  Together, Different, Elements

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• London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Pay, London

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Sight, Bears

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.340

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• What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivation, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

  Ivan Doig

  Love Is, Subjects

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• My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Thinking, Glasses

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We are fascinated by the club and the dancefloor; we are also fascinated by very nuanced sonic experiences, and somehow we are convinced that we can bring together these two contradictory forces and create some kind of sonic supernova. This would be the candle that has always been at the center of our project.

  Thomas Koner

  Together, Kind, Candle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how a whole society can be bound up in the tentacles of sin, in the assumptions that everybody around you makes, about how it becomes easier to sin than not to, and how we can become so confused and contradictory in our reactions, when sin is pointed out.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Confused, Assumption, Speak

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Enthusiasm, Type

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Curiosity, World, Vibrancy

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• On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, Nuclear, Use

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his campaign. The kind of - the promise is vague and sweeping, but vague in places. Also contradictory at times.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Keys, Promise, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

  Nicholas Sparks

  Confused, Bending, Gazing

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Artist, Mind, Chance

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Miracle, Facts, Spirit

  Source: inters.org

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• We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Confusion, Confusing

  Source: medium.com

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• For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

  Kwame Dawes

  Simple, Space, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights norms is a restraint on interventionary diplomacy, especially if coupled with respect for the legal norm of self-determination. But on another level, the protection of human rights creates a pretext for intervention as given approval by the UN Security Council in the form of the R2P (responsibility to protect) norm, as used in the 2011 Libyan intervention. The same applies with international criminal accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Determination, Responsibility, Self

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

  Stephen Marche

  Two, People, Fusion

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Way Forward, Problem

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• 'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people are slaves: of the West and of their local elites.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, People, Slave

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again, or, for that matter, in America, and tried to take away whatever dwindling civil liberties and human rights we retain, I would resist them with a club if I had to. But my admiration for pacifism as an outlook and a sensibility is enormous. I just find that it gets me into contradictions, as it often gets many pacifists into contradictory positions and strategies.

  Murray Bookchin

  Simple, America, Rights

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

  Kiki Smith

  Want, Way, Complicated

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.

  Vijay Prashad

  Moving, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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