internal contradictions Quotes

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I’m a great guy.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.