H. R. McMaster Quotes

There are problems in the world today.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

The thorniest problems are never technological.

All isn't well with the world.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do.