Contradiction Quotes - Page 17

• Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

  Francis Bacon

  Peace, Fighting, Cutting

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.372

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• Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

  John Webster

  Kings, Doctors, Physicians

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 5, sc. 2, l. 72

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• Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

  Daniel Webster

  Military, Men, America

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• There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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• We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Democracies Have, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Contradictory

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Fall, Loss

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• Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

  Samuel Homola

  Order, Facts, Argument

  Samuel Homola (1963). “Bonesetting, Chiropractic and Cultism: A Critical Study of Chiropractic, Its History and Its Methods in Its Relationship with Past and Present-day Medical Science, Along with Analyses, Conclusions and Speculation Regarding Its Status and Its Future”

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• Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Way, Logical

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been lucky with a lot of shows that I've worked on, where they are comfortable with the idea that women are not just one thing, and we can be contradiction.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Good Day, Bad Day, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Interesting, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

  Chris Bauer

  Mistake, Redemption, Hopeless

  Source: collider.com

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• One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Bears, Habit

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• I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

  Tairrie B

  Jesus, Juxtaposition, Freak

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• We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Giving, Challenges

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

  John Berger

  Photographer, Natural, Increase

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Black And White, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

  Veena Sud

  Beautiful, Fall, America

  Source: collider.com

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• You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.

  Brad Stine

  Country, Rights, People

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• Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Important, Desire, Cameras

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• After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

  Burk Uzzle

  Philosophical, Years, Trying

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• Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

  Tibor Kalman

  Culture, Term, Consumers

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• The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

  James Lileks

  Forever, Mind, Turns

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• The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

  John Berger

  Reality, Perspective, Addresses

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• People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  Vincent Cassel

  Nice, People, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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