Top 275 Problematic Quotes & Sayings

I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

The most problematic word in America is the word "problematic." It's a wuss word used by people to silence language without actually saying that they want to silence you. They don't want to go full fascist.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

It's problematic when we have excessive numbers of police taking over the streets. People visiting Seoul for the first time might think... this is a military state.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces a kind of racial hierarchy where whiteness is the privileged position to be in, and ethnicity is problematic.

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

It's problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew.

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

You never want to bite the hand that feeds you, but you also do not want to be aiding and abetting problematic behavior.

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that's problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that's also problematic.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.