Part Of The Problem Quotes

#1. The reason, simply put, is that seeking control is not the solution to the human condition but is part of the problem.

Skye Jethani

#2. We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

Condoleezza Rice

#3. I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

Haruki Murakami

#4. Once again, when you fully understand the neural circuitry of the brain's reward center to seek survival and emotional rewards, it becomes easier to see how diets are part of the problem, and by themselves are never the solution.

Scott Abel

#5. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

Darell Hammond

#6. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

Kathleen Hanna

#7. If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

David Petraeus

#8. Part of the problem is words. The fact that there are separate words for HE and SHE, HIM and HER. I've never thought about it before, how divisive this is. Like maybe if there was just one pronoun for all of us, we wouldn't get so caught on that difference.

David Levithan

#9. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#10. We are either part of the problem, or part of the solution...what are we doing each day to try and solve the most troubling human problems?

Tim Spiess

#11. When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.

Karla Faye Tucker

#12. Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Ron Fournier

#13. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

Hillary Clinton

#14. It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Coretta Scott King

#15. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

Hill Harper

#16. If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

John Avlon

#17. Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved

Fela Durotoye

#18. Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.

Arron Wood

#19. I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

#20. British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Rory Bremner

#21. Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Carlos Santana

#22. Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

Elizabeth Emken

#23. We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Roger Mahony

#24. I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Sarah Dessen

#25. Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't "get" that are part of the problem.

Donal Daly

#26. Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Alexandra Robbins

#27. Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Jackson Katz

#28. Capitalism is just a front lined big word people use to hide their ignorance in their sophisticated clothing. People have a full spectrum of words to snub their part of the problem to console that they are not the cause of a callous situation, so they cannot be a part of the solution.

M. T. Panchal

#29. Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

Cornel West

#30. Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

#31. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

James McGreevey

#32. The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

Charles Bronson

#33. There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Aubrey De Grey

#34. If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

Timothy Pina

#35. If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

#36. Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.

Adam Bucko

#37. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#38. If you're not part of the solution ... then you're part of the problem.
Don't be part of the problem!

Timothy Pina

#39. If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

George Carlin

#40. People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Carly Fiorina

#41. Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

Anna Quindlen

#42. Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#43. Place yourself ... You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape.

James D. Sass

#44. The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Denis McDonough

#45. Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Diane Ackerman

#46. A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

Arthur Hertzberg

#47. Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We're only as good as our last deal,

Derek L. Worthington

#48. That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

Michele Bachmann

#49. Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Hill Harper

#50. If you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough

Josh Stern

#51. There are 3 ways of handling a situation. You can either become part of the problem, part of the solution or part of the pavement..

Cornelius Moore

#52. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem

Robin Sharma

#53. Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

Kinky Friedman

#54. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#55. Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

Oliver Burkeman

#56. If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Jon Krakauer

#57. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

M. Scott Peck

#58. The reason why we find it hard to deal with some situations is that we often get too deep into them that we end up being part of the problem

Mpho Leteng

#59. Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Wayne Dyer

#60. Outsource your anxieties to God. This 'outsourcing' will help you in such a way that you will become only a witness to adverse situations, without becoming a part of the problem yourself.

Sanchita Pandey

#61. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

George Carlin

#62. Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it ... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

Tony Hoare

#63. Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

Michael Nutter

#64. [Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution.

Bill Readings

#65. Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the name of God, questioning whose God is the best God and whose exploration of this deeper reality is the best explanation. That defies everything that this deeper reality teaches.

Edgar Mitchell

#66. A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

Ed Royce

#67. Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

Craig Venter

#68. I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Hugh Hefner

#69. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

#70. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Barack Obama

#71. A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

Laurence M. Vance

#72. I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Leila Janah

#73. People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.

Kenneth Kaye

#74. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

Charles Bronson

#75. That's part of the problem with the Republicans, where somehow they got fed into this horrible position. We're going to take care of people. But no, people don't have to have it. We're going to have great plans, they're going to be a lot less expensive than Obamacare.

Donald Trump

#76. So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Howard Dean

#77. A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

Daniel J. Levitin

#78. South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

Mamphela Ramphele

#79. Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Lindsey Graham

#80. If you don't think a mental patient has the right to bring a sawed-off shotgun to the church where his ex-girlfriend is getting married, you're part of the problem.

David Sedaris

#81. I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.

David Stern

#82. Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure.

Brian D. McLaren

#83. In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

Ben Rattray

#84. In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

Scott Fujita

#85. What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Slavoj Zizek

#86. The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Marcus Samuelsson

#87. Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.

Steven D. Levitt

#88. Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

David Pratt

#89. Dasher was able-bodied; that was part of the problem. His body was able to make hers do crazy things under his scrutiny, touch, scent.

Joy Avery

#90. The things that people are typically afraid of are what I find most exciting and unpredictable, and I guess that's part of the problem is people don't want something unpredictable wasting their time while the cameras are rolling, where to me that's by far the most interesting part.

David Gordon Green

#91. I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

Martha Plimpton

#92. Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

Hill Harper

#93. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Stephen R. Covey

#94. Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous

Charles Clarke

#95. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Karen Armstrong

#96. If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!

George M. Gilbert

#97. The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#98. Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

Ruben Blades

#99. In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

Robert Wright

#100. I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

Luis Guzman