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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw

You're doing great,' she said. 'You're in Birmingham .' Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn't speak. — Andrew O'Hagan

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a contradiction in terms — Kurt Vonnegut

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. — Israel Shahak

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

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. — G.K. Chesterton

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms. — Tariq Ramadan

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. — Jody Dean

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. — V. K. Krishna Menon

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel

Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way. — Frank Ra

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe

You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. — Duane Michals

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms. — Timothy Keller

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. — Vivienne Westwood

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The successful cannot be unhappy
it was a contradiction in terms. — Barry Unsworth

So firm, yet so soft, her body was a contradiction in terms."

~Zane's thoughts... — Tina Folsom

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms. — Stephen Covey

He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. — Johnny Rich

- activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms."
"Oxymoron."
I flipped him a finger. "Same to you with knobs on. — J.L. Merrow

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms — Tibor Kalman

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. — Joe Haldeman

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. — Clive Barker

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time. — Swami Vivekananda

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. — Aldous Huxley

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms. — Timothy C.W. Blanning

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms. — Rick Warren

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms. — Richie Benaud

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. — Indro Montanelli

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. — Groucho Marx