Quotes About Oversimplification

All political movements are like this -- we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

At some risk of oversimplification, I suggest that the usual reason a business cycle turns into a monster is an overdose of government policy.

When people make up their minds about you, they only see you one way, which is the easy way for them.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

I specialize in generalizations.

Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.

But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said they shouldn't. Containment had been a misleading oversimplification; strategy could not be made to fit a bumper sticker. The president laughed when Talbott told him what had happened: that's why Kennan's a great diplomat and scholar but not a politician.

politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

As politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.

all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.