“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 2 (p. 32)
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“For eudaimonism, an ethics of prohibition is a contradiction in terms.”
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
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“The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Butcher Bird
“You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.”
Israel Shahak (1933–2001) Israeli academic
"An Interview with Israel Shahak" in Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3 (1975), p. 3.
““Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
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§ 4.8
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1
Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Context: It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.