Contradicts

Famous quotes containing the word contradicts:

“When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)

“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)