Paradoxical Outcome Quotes

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

In the United States no trend ever arrives at its logical conclusion.

In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.