Quotes About Contradiction

I have a fear of failure, letting someone down, contradicting myself.

Fame is a bit Nietzschean. For everything good, something bad happens to you, so you have to sort of be careful.

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I'm trying to stop reading the Daily Telegraph. I've read it for several years because I prefer to read a pro-Government newspaper that slags the Government off, which the Telegraph frequently does, than an anti-government one or a trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-neutral one.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent.

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth:

The paradox of hell, as the most contradiction-filled one of all, will in all likelihood be patient of no exposition but the most contradictory.

Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.

All this is true, and if it were all, how beautiful, how touching, how glorious it would be. But it is not all. There is another side.

She's not big on achievements either: she says so on her tumblr page. Feeling guilty about not achieving stuff is the result of internalised capitalism, apparently.' 'Seriously?' 'Oh yeah. You never been to a communist country? Everyone lies on sofas all day while trained poodles bring them cake.

Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.

Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business.