Incompatible Quotes

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

Islam and freedom are not compatible.

K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.

I am no longer fit for these times. We are in a new era to which I do not belong.

Terrorism and peace are incompatible.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Some scholars who examine its core writings proclaim Islam to be incompatible with democracy, as if any religion in its origins was about democracy at all.

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

It can no more negotiate sovereignty-association then it can negotiate sour sugar, dry water, boiling ice, or stationary motion.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

The expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.