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An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

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.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.