The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
Italo Calvino

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
Richard Le Gallienne

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.
Henry Reed

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
Roger Mahony

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Evan Parker

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.
Stephen Cambone

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Toni Morrison

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
Steve Perry

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's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
Michael Pollan

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Benjamin Harrison