Quotes about Contradiction
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
— Malcolm X
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
— Henri Nouwen
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
— Khalil Gibran
Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
— Aldous Huxley
Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
— Aldous Huxley
Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.
— Aldous Huxley
She would have laughed if she haven't been at the point of crying.
— Aldous Huxley
That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
— Aldous Huxley
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
— John Eldredge
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
— Charles Dickens