Quotes about Contradiction
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
- Barbara Kingsolver
People always make war when they say they love peace.
- DH Lawrence
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.
- Stephen Colbert
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
- William Faulkner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
- William Golding
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
- William Hazlitt
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
- William James