Deep Problems Quotes

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.