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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

- Manuel Puig Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

- Benjamin Tucker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

- Archibald MacLeish Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.

- D.H. Lawrence Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

- D.H. Lawrence Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

- Hannah Arendt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I want a performance-oriented government that produces results, ... That's contrary to a government based on sound bites and images.

- Bill White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's not particularly constructive to dredge up these debates and divisions of the past, ... On the contrary, it's necessary to bring the willing together, not divide them.

- Chris Patten Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

- John Stuart Mill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

- Omar Bongo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

- Brock Yates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Relativism is not indifference on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

- Karel Capek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

- Jack Cade Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

- Albert Camus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Contrary to popular notion, truck drivers know nothing about good restaurants. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.

- Bryan Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

- Octavio Paz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He is intent on returning and playing. There has never been any thought to the contrary.

- Arn Tellem Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Let me say at the outset, I am in favor of a strong dollar, ... I cannot believe that anyone would think to the contrary.

- Paul O'Neill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

- Bode Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

- Adolf Loos Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

- Rudolf Arnheim Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

- Aldous Huxley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

- Peter Straub Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

- Laurent Fabius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes