“My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsFirstsDifferentProblemBlackRealizingPoorRaceRichConcernConcernedBiggerFinancialBlack PeopleMississippiDisparityDifferent Races Author:David Banner
“Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.” MayStatesProblemIndividualLostPoorLevelsUnitedOpinionUnited StatesGrowingSolutionsConcernIncreaseLeavingObviousKingdomsIdeologyOperationsWelfareDeclineUnited KingdomPathology Author:Kenneth Arrow
“There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.” DifferentRealProblemGovernmentAmericaParticularModelsEuropeConcernDemocraticWesternLatinDeficitLatin AmericaDeliveringWestern EuropeDemocratic Government Author:Mary Robinson
“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.” YearsStatesProblemGovernmentNationsMy OwnJudgingProductsOughtCreatingMajorsConcernIndependentElectionTrialsSelectArizonaState GovernmentJudiciaryThrough The YearsMajor ProblemsIndependent Judiciary Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.” PeopleThinkingYearsProblemSeemsFocusMediaConcernYears AgoTragedyPressesDetailsDivorceBreakupMentalityPersonal LifeNormRevealingPrivate LifeBullied Author:Joan Jett
“In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.” WellsLongProblemViewsMoralPrinciplesCasesConcernFoundationGenuineWell BeingHolisticMoral Principles Author:Dalai Lama
“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.” MenShouldChildrenEndsFactsProblemJobsRolesConcernNegativeFemalePaidImpactCaringAcceptedExplanationWagesHaving ChildrenPart TimePositive ImpactPressured Author:Laura Bates
“My major concern about leaving enhancement to the marketplace is that then the rich will be able to buy themselves genetically superior children and the poor will not - sharpening the class divisions we have now. That problem could be overcome if, genetic enhancement were available to all, subsidized by the state - and that would, over time, have benefits for society as well.” ChildrenProblemPoorRichConcernOvercomingLeaving Author:Peter Singer
“You made these things up yourselves and now scare yourselves with them and even use them to plan your prospective policies. These policies have no prospects. The only possible future is in cooperation in all areas, including security issues. What is the major security problem today? Terrorism. There are bombings in Europe, in Paris, in Russia, in Belgium. There is a war in the Middle East. This is the main concern. But no, let us keep speculating on the threat from Russia.” WarProblemTodaySecurityPolicyConcernThreatTerrorismScareCooperation Author:Vladimir Putin
“The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.” ReasonProblemSufferingHumanityAbilityAnimalMoralConcern Author:Dale Jamieson
“I do know that the effect of the tremendous cutbacks on education that we're seeing are going to create a major problem for the country if we don't provide the opportunity to a huge swath of our society. These impacts are going to have an effect across national security, it's going to have an effect across our social services, and of course on the economy, in broad terms. So there is, I think, at least a level of concern that we ought to have at this point in our history.” ThinkingCountryProblemOpportunityTermEconomySecurityConcernNational SecuritySocial Service Author:Ricardo Sanchez
“The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made by CEOs who are increasing profits by moving their plants to places where labor is cheap - that's where the problem is, not in schools, colleges and universities.” PeopleProblemSchoolMovingPoorRichCollegeConcernLaborPlantCeoOrdinary PeopleRich And PoorObscene Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself against India. The problem was that once Pakistan acquired the weapons, it allowed the country to be more aggressive. So they stepped up their support for the Kashmiri terrorists, and it led very quickly to the Kargil crisis in 2000, which almost sparked a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.” WarRealCountryReasonProblemSupportConcernCrisisTerroristAggressiveNuclear WeaponsNuclear War Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
“Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern, not something we're going to get to later. And I say that because in that quiet is a whole experience that people can have that reaches to their soul. I like to think of quiet places in nature as the think tank of the soul. It's in these very basic levels that we'll be able to see what the real problem is.” PeopleThinkingRealSoulProblemQuietConcernEnvironmentalPollutionEnvironmentalistQuiet Place Author:Gordon Hempton
“I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.” MadeProblemHouseWishWhiteKnownConcernWorthyPresidentialWhite HouseSenatorsLegislators Author:George McGovern
“If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.” IfsLongProblemRememberRoomsHellWrittenMinutesStageMaterialsSpeechConcernComicRehearsalLong Speeches Author:Dylan Moran
“With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.” HumansProblemViolenceHuman NatureSolutionsConcernBlank Slates Author:Steven Pinker
“A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.” ChildrenProblemLife IsSpiritChanceInvolvedConcernRighteousPersonal Problems Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“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.” FirstsProblemBitsCommunitySecretMagicConcernGardenSeasonsPrizeEpisodesRealismBlanketFortsSecret GardenTrampolines Author:Rob Sheffield
“I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.” KnowsMenMindBelieveHumansDoeSometimesWholeProblemPainJoyI BelieveCausesBlackDarkSleepResultsMorningKnowingBloodActivityConcernTechniqueAcceptedReasoningJustifyHuman MindChestsEcstasyStomachBubblesElectricNot KnowingRejectedFacetsNew DirectionsClearness Book:East of Eden Source: East of Eden
“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.” WorldMindDoeImportantMatterFactsProblemEyeOrderTermInterestExistenceOrdinaryConcernRelationDistancePatternsCeaseSignificanceCategoriesIntensityImpliedProfunditySpatial Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956 Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.” IfsMenProblemConcernContemptDespiseDeserving Author:Marcus Aurelius
“Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.” PeopleHumansImportantMatterProblemPastMemoriesHuman BeingsConcernBoundsForgottenCurrentsBad ThingsGrandfatherFlawed Book:The High King's Tomb Source: The High King's Tomb
“The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.” PeopleKnowsWorldProblemJobsChallengesCommonEconomyPolicyChangedTerribleFindingsCapacityConcernEmptyEndlessImmigrationCommon SenseCashContinentsPublic Policy Author:Richard Lamm
“This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.” WayProblemNationsEffortSeriousApproachMajorsConcernTraditionConstitutionImmigrationConsistentImmigrantsIllegalRight WayIllegal ImmigrationLegal Immigration Author:Janet Reno
“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” MenMindProblemFormScienceOrderCulturePoliticsInterestJusticeForgetFateMankindCreationBlessingDiversityConcernLaborOrganizationSocial JusticeChiefsCurseMidstGoodsNever ForgetEndeavorEquationsDistributionDiagramsApplied ScienceUnsolved Problems Author:Albert Einstein
“Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons.” PeopleWayShouldWarProblemTodayCertainValuesWaterJusticeResultsTalkingMoralAirDangerProduceWeaponsConcernHungerSeekingToleranceDialogueDespiteConquerContentmentPollutionEcologyClashMoral ValuesPrecautionErosionTacklingAir PollutionLethal Weapon Author:Fethullah Gulen
“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.” PeopleNeedsShouldImportantReasonProblemTodayFallNationsAchieveIgnoranceMassOrdinaryConcernFundamentalsComplexesAffairProsperityEducationalCorePrimariesDeclinePrincipalRequirementsPromotionUrgentParamountUninformedUniversal Education Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.” NeedsGivingLittlesHardPlayProblemFormJusticeCompassionWorstHonestyHard WorkCapitalismConcernFairsRewardsPunishmentGlobalizationRuthlessHandicapsThose In NeedFair PlayWork LoveConniving Author:Michael Parenti
“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.” IfsStillsProblemWould BeTodayAcceptingStreetsMediaCrimeMajorsGunConcernConnectionsCriminalsGun ControlFree SocietyAccepting The Truth Author:Jeff Cooper
“Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.” IfsMindLongProblemHappensUsedParentStudentsCollegeConcernAccountsPaidBillsUniversityUsed To BeChiefsTaxpayersBank AccountsColleges And Universities Author:George Leef