Andrew Forrest Quotes

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

You cannot create by decrees conditions which are alien to the very character of the existing economic relations.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

The world doesn't throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every theory seems almost right.

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

New York City has an integration problem.

Money fixes most problems.

It's often hard to just throw money at a problem when you don't really know what the problem is.

I've always believed there are inequities in our country.

I think solving the problems of America is what's good.

I obviously wouldn't say on nationwide TV that I thought America was racist, sexist, homophobic and violent if they asked me why I left. I would just say America wasn't a culture I felt comfortable in. But anybody with a brain would understand what I'm trying to say.

Like anybody, I look around at the world that we live in, and I find it hard to be completely positive about everything that's going on.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.