Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

You cannot solve a problem that you do not admit exists.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

The cure can be worse than the illness

… problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

If answers to our national problems were [readily] available we would not have to spend all our time talking about them.

No government at any level has all the answers.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.