Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.
One does not contradict the other. Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
