Contradictory Terms Quotes

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

It can no more negotiate sovereignty-association then it can negotiate sour sugar, dry water, boiling ice, or stationary motion.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction.

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

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

Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

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

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.