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Quotes About Contradiction

Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I am a sleeper, a spy, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not a misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, though some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa. The weakness was there to be seen if one could see it.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ah, contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity! No one was spared, not even the Americans or the Vietnamese, who bathed daily, or the French, who bathed less than daily.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Don't you see that the Americans need the anti-American?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Isn't it funny that in a society that values freedom above all things, things that are free are not valued?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionaries do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? And is it sane or insane to believe, as so many around us apparently do, in nothing?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionary do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? And is it sane or insane to believe, as so many around us apparently do, in nothing?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
And there you have the absurdity.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Americans are a confused people because they can't admit this contradiction. They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words.
~ Unknown
Even if no one can love and be wise at the same time, but they can flirt and be wise at the same time.
~ Unknown
Give me some good advice and I promise you that I will not follow it.
~ Unknown
Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow.
~ Unknown
How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!
~ Viktor Schauberger
if the Bible is a revelation of truth, then anything that contradicts it must be false.
~ Unknown
it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.
~ Unknown
The necessary result is that the person who claims to believe both divine sovereignty and human freedom believes neither.
~ Unknown
Since the only God presented in the Bible is an absolutely sovereign God, a person who affirms human free will cannot, without contradiction, affirm belief in God.
~ Unknown
If a person understands what the Bible says, and if he does not impose his own stupid assumptions upon it, then the Bible will never appear contradictory to him. He will never see even one apparent contradiction in the Bible. This is because the Bible never contradicts itself.
~ Unknown
How does one become mediocre? By complying with and conforming to one thing today and another tomorrow, as the world dictates, by never contradicting the world and by heeding public opinion"_Page.250
~ Vincent Van Gogh