Quotes About Contradiction

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.

You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Happiness had a way of coming to you and making you sad. You would think, 'There seems to have been a time when I deserved such a happiness and needed it, like a day's pay, and now I have no use for it at all.' How can you be happy, how can you live, when all the things that make you happy grieve you nearly to death?

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

No sense makes sense.

Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.

Pain and joy are also part of the polyphony of life, and ... they can exist independently side by side.

Would you rather be more abominable than you sound or sound more abominable than you are? The answer is I would rather be neither but I am both.

Dearest, I don't like you a bit," Anthony interrupted again. "I think you're a very detestable, selfish pig and prig. But I'm often wildly in love with you, and so I see you're not. But I'm sure your only chance of salvation is to marry me.

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.

The man was an enigma. One minute he was looking at her as though he would kiss her senseless, the next he refused to even talk to her, much less look at her.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

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The point is, Johnny, you get to say. You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings for this woman. You get to describe the particular kind of oh-shit-I-didn't-mean-to-fall-in-love-but-I-sorta-did love you appear to have for her.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

This is how we girls are. At times we want to be wanted, even when we deny it.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

A Gemini is a cross between a drunk and a genius.