Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
Quotes about simplistic (16 Quotes)
We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
Both of them are playing a game of brinksmanship. The risk both run is regulatory intervention, which neither wants. But this is a complicated issue that defies the simplistic analysis.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
It's rather simplistic but that's what it is That there is room for redemption and hope, however grim things are that the human spirit does have that ability to do something that is selfless, even under the most horrendous circumstances.
A knowledge economy doesn't mean producing doctorates, although there is a perception that higher-level skills drive the economy. It's too simplistic to say that one follows the other. There is no belief at the OECD that the production of advanced degrees is a formula for economic success.
When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
I find it amazing to watch the Democrats who have consistently argued that the Bush administration holds a simplistic understanding of the world, and treats all Muslims as equals, to take this position.
This administration has no plan, no vision, no answer beyond simplistic knee-jerk tax cuts for the wealthiest among us.