Contradiction Quotes

• So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.

  

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Trade
  • Contradiction
  • Capital

• I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • People
  • Change
  • Contradiction

• We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

  

  David Brion Davis
  • Possible
  • Democratic
  • Ultimate

• When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Harmony

• It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

  

  Paul Merton
  • People
  • Laughing
  • Shy

• I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Suppose
  • Contradiction

• Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Dream
  • Romantic
  • Fiction

• If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• I always look for contradiction in a character.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Character
  • Contradiction

• America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Attitude

• I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Film
  • Expression
  • Cinema

• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

  

  Stephen LaBerge
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Contradiction

• I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

  

  Errol Flynn
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Contradiction

• I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Contradiction

• It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • World
  • Creator
  • Contradiction

• It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Judgment
  • Affection
  • Rage

• Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Brave
  • Originals
  • Finest

• Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

  

  African Spir
  • Disappear
  • Contradiction

• I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Struggle
  • Need
  • Wondered

• Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Term
  • Contradiction
  • Mutual

• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Broken
  • Hands
  • Life is

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