Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

People tend to simplify things.

Words can be an act of reductionism.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

If it doesn't go [fit] on a bumper sticker, we don't listen.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

We have to deal in 30 second sound bites. It's not your fault. It's not our fault.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker. The truth is longer.