Contradiction Quotes - Page 19

• Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

  Frank Zindler

  Men, Ministry, Power Trip

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the way in which those contradictions can be both understood and is sometimes actually used to the benefit of people who need them.

  Henry Giroux

  Fall, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider, while at the same time in some way you're taking advantage of what these people are saying within a discourse that has some legitimacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

  Paul Beatty

  People, Hey, Said

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

  Paul Beatty

  Good Friend, Poet, Said

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Philosopher, Slapstick

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front.

  Robert Mugabe

  Party, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction. I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Hands, Two

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Germany, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Would Be, Ethics

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to hate the government, they want the population to love the government. Namely, they're in favor of a very powerful state which works in their interest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Hate, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them up and live with them and pretend that deep cleavage is not there. We all bear that illness.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Color, Race, Splits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.

  Huston Smith

  Mean, Hands, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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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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• I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

  Wole Soyinka

  Numbers, Creative, Combat

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Long Ago

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Giving, Scripture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Nobody is saying, "We don't have a problem." Nobody is saying that, "9/11 didn't happen." What they're saying is, "We're not a fragile country, trust us to have this conversation, so that we can do this in the right way, in a more effective way."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, House, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.

  Michael Yates

  Powerful, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

  Michael Yates

  Effort, World, Today

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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