Oxymoron Quotes - Page 4

• Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Unique, Rights

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent. It's something that is objective, regardless of how you feel. So, the term gender identity seems to me to be something of an oxymoron. It's not really about one's identity. It's rather a matter of one's self-perception or one's feelings about oneself.

  William Lane Craig

  Independent, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.

  Peter Thiel

  Two, Democracy, Libertarian

  "The Education of a Libertarian" by Peter Thiel, www.cato-unbound.org. April 13, 2009.

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• The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

  Wilson Follett

  Self, Illustration

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• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Hate, People

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• As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Heaven, Lukewarm

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.58, David C Cook

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• instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

  Ellen Goodman

  Real, Opinion, Reactions

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• For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

  Judith Plaskow

  People, Feminist, Religion

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

  George Lois

  Creative, Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• 'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

  Don Johnston

  Future, Way Forward, Choices

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• The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gay, Firsts, Theocracy

  "Stephen Hawking Endorses Iranian and Chinese Repression" by Alan Dershowitz, www.algemeiner.com. May 10, 2013.

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• A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Christian, Atheist, Progressive

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

  Martha Plimpton

  Independent, Film, Independent Film

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 2009.

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• The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they paid for the record, for marketing, promotion, publicity, everything it took to make the artist a star. But now we have to go back to the venture capital model. The business is stopping and everyone's complaining but you can't blame labels. It's a shitty business. You do it because you're passionate, or because it's what you've always known. But if you lived through the nineties, nobody is thinking this is great compared to what it used to be.

  Tom Silverman

  Artist, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• An honest politician is an oxymoron.

  Mark Twain

  Honest, Politician

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• Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

  George Will

  Baseball, Thinking, Trivia

  George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Church, Members, Concepts

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.16, B&H Publishing Group

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