Contradictory Quotes - Page 13

• We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Principles, Different

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

  Steve Inskeep

  Self, Two, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Wise, Color, Two

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

  Martha Manning

  Land, Anxiety, Floating

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• Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Study, Empiricism, Findings

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• Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, Warning, Caution

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• If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

  Richard Overy

  Character, Goering, Complexes

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• To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence.

  Omali Yeshitela

  Opposites, Ideas, Independence

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lasts, Spite, Infirmity

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• You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, People, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

  John Berger

  Photographer, Contradiction, Natural

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

  Shirin Neshat

  Beautiful, Gun, Hands

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• It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions.

  Max Born

  Father, Character, Son

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• How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.

  Joseph L. Bast

  Couple, Real, Team

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• Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

  Bill Ayers

  Art, Activism, Courses

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Morality

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• There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Giving, Perception

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• The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

  Robert Fripp

  Stupid, Blow, People

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• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  War, Our World, Generosity

  "Tenets Into Transformation, Part 1" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Space, People

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• I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

  Faris Badwan

  Optimistic, Thinking, Seems

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