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Hubris and science are incompatible. -- Douglas Preston
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. -- Walter Scott
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father. -- Andre Braugher
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. -- Omar Bongo
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. -- Thomas Huxley
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. -- Kenneth R. Miller
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. -- Italo Calvino
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. -- Richard Dawkins
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. -- Anna Quindlen
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. -- Anthony Trollope
Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion. -- Joko Widodo
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. -- Roy Hattersley
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. -- Roy Jenkins
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. -- Daniel Kahneman
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live. -- Sam Harris
What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family? -- Duniya Vijay
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. -- Erich Fromm
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. -- Noam Chomsky
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. -- H. P. Blavatsky
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. -- Theodore Dalrymple
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom. -- Roz Savage
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. -- Isaiah Berlin
Activity and sadness are incompatible. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Conceit is incompatible with understanding. -- Leo Tolstoy
What is life without incompatible realities? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Ruth and I are happily incompatible. -- Billy Graham
Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Science is almost totally incompatible with religion. -- Peter Atkins
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy. -- Jerrold Nadler
High school and equality are forever incompatible. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
a social conscience is not incompatible with profit. -- Anita Roddick
I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible. -- Geert Wilders
Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible. -- Robert Fripp
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith. -- George Coyne
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. -- Jack Welch
A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible. -- Tom Hayden
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah. -- Solomon Schechter
Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They're inseparable. -- Jim Stengel
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible. -- Rem Koolhaas
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another. -- Franz von Papen
Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible. -- Russell Smith
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. -- Bertrand Russell
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about. -- Haruki Murakami
Because federal hate-crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. -- Ron Paul
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, -- Bran Ferren
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. -- Christopher Hitchens
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society. -- Jacques Ellul
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. -- Ismail KadarÃ©
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. -- Denis Diderot
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. -- Vera Brittain
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible. -- Richelle Mead
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection -- Murray Rothbard
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. -- Tom Hoover
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. -- Robert Breault
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible. -- Antony Beevor
Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together. -- Willa Cather
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. -- Alfred de Musset
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. -- Edmund Burke
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible. -- Elliott Sober
Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. -- Aldous Huxley
I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it. -- Richard Dawkins
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon. -- Daniel H. Pink
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. -- Edward Gibbon
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. -- David Hume
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. -- Ludwig von Mises
Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate. -- Jeanne Phillips
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. -- Wendell Willkie
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship. -- Peter Drucker
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about -- Salvatore Ferragamo
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony -- John Stott
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn. -- Peter Senge
The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader. -- Francis Mont
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. -- Bertrand Russell
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. -- Patrick Henry
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. -- D. H. Lawrence
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. -- Honore de Balzac
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me. -- Zhang Ziyi
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have. -- John Ortberg
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever. -- Albert Einstein
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. -- William E. Woodward
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. -- Wole Soyinka
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet. -- Fidel Castro
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. -- Ayn Rand
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. -- William H. Seward
War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war. -- Jimmy Carter
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". -- Thomas Sowell
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. -- Susanna Kaysen
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. -- Gijs de Vries
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." -- Billy Graham
Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. -- William Cohen
It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate! -- Judith Orloff
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator. -- Samuel Wilberforce
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately. -- Cornelia Funke
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars -- Leo Tolstoy
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars -- Leo Tolstoy
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage. -- Baron de Montesquieu
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. -- David Hume
To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible. -- Charles Stanley
Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will compliment each others shortcomings -- Bae Yong-joon
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive. -- E. O. Wilson
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. -- Ron Paul

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