Charles Edison Quotes

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.