Quotes About Contradiction

I would describe myself as eclectic: Bohemian in thought and conservative in action - or maybe it's the other way around.

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

I couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and targeted him simply for his sex, advocating an ideology that was a direct contradiction to my role as a mother to protect and nurture my child.

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

You try to teach toughness and to hit hard, and also say to be safe and don't hurt anybody - there's a contradiction there. The very fundamental question for the long road is, Do you want your kids playing football? That's the scary question, especially for the N.F.L.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Love doesn't make angels fall. If anything, love can have quite the opposite effect.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

But I'm a fucking hypocrite; because when things get bad enough, I pray for help. And tonight, things are bad.

Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

Luckless is that country in which the symbols of procreation are held in horror!' he wrote, 'while the agents of destruction are revered!

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

Americans were folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything.

Americans were those folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything.

Action and malice that contradicts the conscience will result in irreparable damage and pain that could linger for years.

Two rights don't equal a left.

I was about to be buried in the best-looking coffin I'd ever seen, and I wouldn't even be too dead to enjoy myself.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.