Mutual Exclusivity Quotes

Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

Security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can have both

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk in someone else's shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

All [countries] cannot be happy at once … because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

We cannot have two policies. That is axiomatic.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.