Concern Quotes

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. (Emil Cioran)
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. View quote
Stephen Harper
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. View quote
William Hazlitt
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. View quote
William Hazlitt
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems. View quote
George Soros
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. View quote
Henry Miller
Conduct is three-fourths of life and its largest concern. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people. View quote
John Selden
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. View quote
Denzel Washington
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. (Anatole France)
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. View quote
Epicurus
The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. View quote
Warren Weaver
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. View quote
Wim Wenders