Contradiction Quotes - Page 15

• I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

  Wole Soyinka

  Numbers, Creative, Combat

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Long Ago

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Giving, Scripture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Nobody is saying, "We don't have a problem." Nobody is saying that, "9/11 didn't happen." What they're saying is, "We're not a fragile country, trust us to have this conversation, so that we can do this in the right way, in a more effective way."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, House, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.

  Michael Yates

  Powerful, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

  Michael Yates

  Effort, World, Today

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Hands, Two

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Bridges, People, Optimism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction. I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Errors, Appreciate

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Shows, Supposing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

  Michael Helm

  Jobs, Reality, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the way in which those contradictions can be both understood and is sometimes actually used to the benefit of people who need them.

  Henry Giroux

  Fall, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight of is that even with a guy like [George] Soros the thing that he doesn't question, which does unify that class, is that they don't want to get rid of the capitalist system, they don't see an alternative.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Sight, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider, while at the same time in some way you're taking advantage of what these people are saying within a discourse that has some legitimacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

  Paul Beatty

  People, Hey, Said

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Philosopher, Slapstick

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.

  Catherine Camus

  Mother, Lying, Humility

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• [Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual.

  Catherine Camus

  Obvious Things, Pathways, Want

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front.

  Robert Mugabe

  Party, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Eye, Russia

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Cutting, Successful, Cost

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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