Concern Quotes - Page 9

• Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

  B. F. Skinner

  Practice, Achievement, Society

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• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Civilization, Worship, Skyscraper

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Might, Hours

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

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• More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Healthy, Despair

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Essence

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• Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

  Nell Zink

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  "Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink". Interview with Matthew Jakubowski, www.theparisreview.org. December 8, 2014.

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• Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Feels

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Italian Painters of the Renaissance”

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• We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Conscious, Persons

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• Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Education, Educational, Progress

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Believe, Class

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.255, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Worry, Alive

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• The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

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• I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.

  Charles Barkley

  Dog, Winning, Mad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

  Martha Graham

  Philosophy, Moving, Land

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• Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Justice, Attention, Lasts

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.82, 谷月社

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• A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Acting, Likes, Affair

  John Stuart Mill (1869). “On Liberty”, p.187

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• A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Peculiar, Taste, Purses

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing

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• Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Psychics, Moral

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Country, Europe, Food Culture

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• With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Swirls, Involved

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

  Mary Astell

  Matter, Pity, Rate

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.59, Broadview Press

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• The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.

  James Cromwell

  Spiritual, Adventure, Grace

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• Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Issues, Looks

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will listen and won't judge, no matter what you say. Praying is like handing the problem over to someone else as you talk it out. Then you can tune in for guidance and a different perspective that will exude heartfelt energy. When you pray, you are exposing your real self and extending sincere, loving energy to yourself. It doesn't matter if your words are fancy or plain, and there is no way to do it right or wrong. Prayer is about opening your heart and being sincere.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Prayer, Real, Mean

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