Concern Quotes

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

Society, Few, Individual

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
Ramsey Clark

Fair, Security, Lawyers

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Harry Chapin

Used, Lives, Alive

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
Len Wein

Good, Themselves, Whose

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
Mitch Daniels

Life, Waiting, Begin

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Jeff Koons

Art, Help, Trying

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.
Javier Bardem

Work, Best, Strong

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
John Thorn

Life, Nothing, Classmates

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth

Good, Important, Sacrifice

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.
Dominic Monaghan

Business, Difference, Either

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
Jack Kemp

Bad, Cause, Pursued

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
John Ciardi

Trust, Him, Down

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
Anna Deavere Smith

Women, Men, School

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Anna Deavere Smith

Society, Selfish, Mirror

When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.
Josh Radnor

Life, Two, Enough

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner

Life, Education, Art

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
Thabo Mbeki

Mother, Again, Child

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
Noam Chomsky

Fun, Done, After

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.
Rob Sheffield

Problem, Often, Secret

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
Cornel West

Love, Trust, Justice

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

Nature, Progress, Themselves

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton Marsalis

Human, Progress, Maybe

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons

Study, Matter, System

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Hu Shih

Life, Society, Human

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership, Point, Almost

Leaking of classified material is a concern.
Robert Mueller

Material, Classified, Leaking

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge

Person, Son, Knew

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.
Conrad Black

Justice, Human, American

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.
Conrad Black

Money, Government, Give

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner

Dark, Light, Between

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