Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.
I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.
Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed. " It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.
I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.