Shane Smith Quotes

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

The world is a mess.

I don't like to talk too much about differences between managers.

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

Drama often obscures the real issues

The world is pretty messed up.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

I don't want any drama.

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.

I don't have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

Why do human beings find it so hard to live and let live? Countries are messing with each other. Religions are messing with each other. Castes are messing with each other; people mess with each other.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

A lot of problems in the society exist because we don't talk about it.

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?