Inconsistency Quotes - Page 4

• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some inconsistency or absurdity. As far as real meaning is concerned, both are imaginary, since 0 - a is as inconceivable as √(-a).

  Augustus De Morgan

  Real, Expression, Negative

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• Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Keith, Littles

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• Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Passionate, Development

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.171, A&C Black

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• To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.

  Richard Carrier

  Errors, Games, People

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• The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Stories, Odyssey

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

  Mark Twight

  Lying, Cutting, Incompetence

  Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”

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• Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.

  Audie Cornish

  Immigration, News, Stories

  "Inconsistencies Call Melania Trump's Immigration Story Into Question". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.

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• There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Forgiveness, Doe, Purpose

  St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Giving, Consistent

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Men, Names

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• There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Past, Discworld

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• The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.

  Dale Jamieson

  Clever, Philosophy, Smart

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are inconsistencies in Donald Trump's ideology.

  David Remnick

  Trump, Ideology

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• Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.

  Murray Bookchin

  Party, Order, Political

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• I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, People, Trying

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

  Michael Faraday

  Dog, Men, Average

  Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET

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• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority... it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Men, Laughing

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• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Writing, Character, Story Writers

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• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Son

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.378, Discovery House

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• There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.

  Matt Redman

  Character, Lapses, Eternity

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• There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

  John Calvin

  Men, Rewards, Good Work

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