Quotes About Contradiction

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

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

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.