Concern Quotes - page 2

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. (Smedley Butler)
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. View quote
Horace
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. (John F. Kennedy)
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. View quote
Ronald Reagan
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. View quote
Eisaku Sato
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. View quote
Barbara Deming
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. View quote
Brent Scowcroft
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. View quote
Gerrit Smith
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. View quote
Lyn Nofziger
There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over. (Michael Shanks)
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. View quote
Stephen Cambone
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The very idea that society should serve the poor, the sick, and the marginalized became a distinctively Christian concern. View quote
Bart D. Ehrman