“An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.” ArtArtistFoundViewsSolutionsUltimateClaimsExtremist Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.” PeopleWhiteSolutionsClaimsCookingChocolateSoupRiceSauceGravyNoodlesEclairs Author:Jo Coudert
“After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsIdeasValuesSecretStudyClearSecurityPeriodsSolutionsProgramClaimsOriginalsTerroristTargetPakistanIf You BelieveCiaDronesOriginal IdeasStanfordNyu Author:Robert Greenwald
“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHelpingSeemsCarePoliticalPoliticsParticularSolutionsClaimsAssumingDon't BelieveLiberalism Author:Thomas Sowell
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.” PersonsProblemDoubtSolutionsClaimsConvictionCertaintyNeuroticNeurosisPsychoticPsychosisDoubt And Certainty Book:The second sin Source: The second sin
“We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.” BelieveChildrenWarWholeAgeFormPoorNumbersBirthSolutionsProgramClaimsJewHeyAbortionGenocideBirth ControlExtermination Author:Dorothy Day
“In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.” IfsI CanProblemMightHumourApproachSolutionsClaimsMathematicsChessMathematicianElegantNew ApproachCheckmateElegant Solutions Author:Emanuel Lasker