Serious Issues Quotes - Page 2

• I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.

  Eddie Glaude

  Thinking, Issues, America

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the media. It means that we are a more questioning society, perhaps more honestly prepared to address serious issues and problems, more open to the idea that different viewpoints should be heard and respected.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Issues, Want, Serious

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and choose today to take our stand on the moral issues which threaten us.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Issues, Community, Example

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• I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Issues, Negative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

  George H. W. Bush

  Issues, Guy, Political

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• The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

  Leo Strauss

  Simple, Men, Issues

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

  Haile Gerima

  Issues, People, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Teaching, Taken

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• When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

  Johnny Carson

  Thoughtful, Issues, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  Randy Jackson

  Issues, Becoming, Serious

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• I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Issues, Matter

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