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• Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

  Geert Wilders

  Islam, Moderates

  "'Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction'". Interview with Gerald Traufetter, www.spiegel.de. March 31, 2008.

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• The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

  Carl Jung

  Angel, Half, Conflict

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• Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Care, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.25, IHS Press

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• Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Light, Our Generation, Darkness

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• "Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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• The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Views, Atheism, Creation

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.346, e-artnow

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• A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

  John William Draper

  Men, Views, Intellectual

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

  Israel Shahak

  Term, Humane, Zionism

  "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.

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• Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Life Is, Messy

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• You need contradictions to make an ideal.

  Alex Shakar

  Needs, Ideals

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• Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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• We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Mean, Dark, Doctrine

  Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.13, TAN Books

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• What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

  Paul Haggis

  Writing, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Years

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

  Robert McKee

  Creativity, Differences, Achievement

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• It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

  Neil Postman

  Technological, Diversion, Insensible

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• The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Twenties, Stories, Six

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• I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Reality, Long, Labyrinth

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• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Thinking, Challenges, India

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• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

  African Spir

  Fighting, Fields, Different

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 39), 1937.

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• self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

  Vivian Gornick

  Confidence, Self, Faces

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

  Monique Wittig

  Struggle, Class, Two

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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