“And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.” IfsWayStillsReasonUseRunningChurchCommonMankindQuietConcernHearingDoctrineObscureDisputesAnother WayCurb Book:Dryden: Selected Poems Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.” FirstsMayTwoReasonUsePastMediaConcernOrganizationIndependencePressesJournalistOperationsDamageInherentCommitteesCredibilityCiaMisleadExaminingPast And PresentFree PressCovert Author:Frank Church
“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.” ThinkingMenCountryMatterReasonFormFreedomAbilityOpinionSpeechConcernEvery ManStationsFree Country Author:Edmund Burke
“To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .” GivingMatterReasonInterestMy OwnPovertyConcernDevotion Author:Socrates
“From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.” KnowsTryingFirstsReasonMightPresidentBehindsFiguresOfficeConcernVicesObsessionSaddamHusseinPresident BushPsychiatristVice President Author:Hillary Clinton
“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.” MenHumansChildrenReasonRealityLawSpiritPoorMoralWifeSubjectsMaterialsShapesConcernPressureMiseryErasAutonomyCunningWorkshopsSupplementsIntroverted Author:Max Horkheimer
“As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.” IfsMayMeanIdeasReasonEnoughChristianStrongChristianityFailingAtheismArmsConcernBasesCompetitionMereDefeatPositive AtheismDoctrineConclusionMeritRealmsEnterpriseHave FaithBiblicalDisguiseInquiryCompetitorsDomainTacticsResortsMafiaChristian FaithFree EnterpriseStrong Arms Book:Atheism: The Case Against God Source: Atheism: The Case Against God
“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.” IfsFeelsReasonFeelingsPassionInterestPerfectMinutesSubjectsTenClothesConcernRootsDressesComplexesIndifferentTopicsStraightforwardGuardedTouchyOverbearingDeep Roots Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.” IfsWayWantFeelsWellsRealSometimesReasonDoneStarsCan DoAudienceProjectsConcernAwfulRhymeTerrificGood MovieBad Movies Author:Clint Eastwood
“I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.” ReasonFactsFilmTvsProjectsConcernCameras Author:Topher Grace
“America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.” ReasonHomeAmericaPresidentNaturalConcernVictimHumanitarianDisasterNo ReasonStrifePresident BushForeignersNatural Disaster Author:Dan J. Stein
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present” ReasonTodayPastArtistValuesPleasureInterestingQualityPaintingEssentialsConcernHistoricalDuesMannersRepresentationHistorical Value Book:The Painters of Modern Life Source: The Painters of Modern Life
“The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.” PeopleHeartReasonSeemsJoySpiritCoursesHoursWalksAttitudeLordWorrySkyDivineSorrowGoodnessAnxietyConcernOptimismStormLiftsSunshineRejoiceTestimonyGladnessNature BeautyCloudyThose You LoveCloudy Skies Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.” IfsGivingFirstsBelieveDoeReasonFactsEarthCausesSupportAtheismEffectsFieldsIgnoranceTomorrowConcernDignityFilledMereNotionPatientIntuitionPositive AtheismArguingTheologyRevelationsGapsMetaphysicsInquirySeekersOrigin Of Life Author:H. L. Mencken
“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.” WorldMeanCountryReasonSecurityMilitaryPositionConsequenceConcernVery GoodIsraelSignificantNervousReason WhyIranRelativeDeniedHolocaustMissilesHezbollah Author:Barack Obama
“There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.” TwoReasonEvilElementsConcernInfiniteProductionsDiscussionConsiderationContinuityLabyrinth Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.” FeelsFirstsIdeasSelfReasonStrongConcernSorryPityReason WhyObsessedGrievingDisplaySelf PityFeel Sorry For You Author:Joan Didion
“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingHumansReasonHelpingProblemSufferingUniverseHuman BeingsMoralityConcernRewardsCreatorAvailableNobleHelping OthersLinkages Author:Sam Harris
“We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.” LittlesSelfReasonTalentBecomingConcernNo ReasonEntitledSelf CenteredBratVery Famous Author:Laura Benanti
“There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.” IfsSoulMatterReasonEarthSpiritualTeachDangerousDangerConcernBlindAssDestroyedDangerous ThingsBlindedDeluded Author:Martin Luther
“I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.” IfsThinkingImportantReasonRunningUsedProcessPresidentConcernBackgroundsUsed To BeCapabilityOffering Author:Fred Thompson
“My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.” YearsReasonProblemKidsAgeMotherPassionCoursesReadingFoundResponsibilitySawsStreetsHorrorTenPicksConcernCleanMissionsObsessedMy PassionPersonal ResponsibilityEnvironmentalismContributingNo Turning BackLittering Author:Laurie David
“The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.” MayReasonLeftViewsNew YorkPaperConcernWingsConservativePoint Of ViewTraditionalPrimariesNew York TimesLeft WingContemptuous Author:Bill O'Reilly
“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.” WorldWantFeelsYearsHumansDoeArtMadeIdeasReasonFeelingsEarthCertainLosesDutyGratitudePleaseShapesConcernAimDebtDrawingTendenciesThirtyConcentrationSincereSerenityCalmnessThirty YearsSouvenirs Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.” IfsReasonDifficultPoorRichFiguresHealthyConcernSickReason WhyAnother LifeRich Or Poor Author:Duane Hanson
“I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.” ReasonRunningPassionChristChurchConcernAssumingWitBoredBuriedPreacherInitialsDebris Author:Frederick Buechner
“I know there is a lot of concern I know about plans that Iran might have to develop nuclear weapons which arises from positions that Iran took in the past when in fact it did not disclose things to the IAEA… because they were hiding something. I can understand that.” KnowsI CanReasonFactsMightPastPlansPositionWeaponsConcernNuclearAriseConclusionIranHidingNuclear WeaponsHiding Something Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I've made it clear in my reporting that we need a rational, effective and humane system. I don't support amnesty, and for that reason amnesty groups attack me. That's fine, it's a free country. Their attacks don't give me too much concern.” NeedsGivingMadeCountryReasonSupportClearToo MuchGroupsFineConcernGive MeRationalMade ItHumaneAmnestyFree Country Author:Lou Dobbs
“Not everybody here is rich. Not everybody here is independently wealthy. Not everybody here is free from any kind of economic concern. We run the gamut here, too. It's the opportunity to escape that that exists here, for very specific reasons. But it's not because the US is where it is. It's not because our DNA is different than anybody else's. It's because of the way we have structured our affairs, our government.” WayKindDifferentReasonGovernmentRunningOpportunityRichEconomicConcernAffairWealthyDna Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.” ReasonEnoughTogetherAmericaSpeakClassMiddleConcernMiddle ClassGlue Author:Joe Biden
“That something that really concerns me because I have good reason to believe and be hopeful, rather, this was the best posture of any Republican in history towards LGBTQ issues.” BelieveReasonIssuesRepublicanConcernHopefulPosture Author:Margaret Hoover
“There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image, and no reason at all to accuse such creatures of getting the world wrong - a point that both Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche make when comparing human and animal perspectives.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferentReasonPurposeAnimalPerspectiveCreaturesConcernCompareNo ReasonHumans And Animals Author:David E. Cooper
“I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.” ThinkingWorldKindRealReasonHelpingHumanityCan DoMajorsConcernNegativeImpactPopulationExpandingArmament Author:Amartya Sen
“I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.” ThinkingNeedsMeanReasonWholeFactsUseAmericaCan DoPlanetsConcernConcernedAccessMedicalBest ThingsParenthoodOur PlanetPlanned Parenthood Author:Shonda Rhimes
“Terrorism and trade policy are clearly topics where Trump expresses the fears and concerns of many American people. There is a widespread feeling in this country that the government has been too willing to go into trade deals that sent American jobs to Mexico or to China. The affected communities feel left behind. It is one of the reasons for Trump's rise.” PeopleCountryReasonFeelingsCommunityPolicyConcernTradeTerrorismLeft Behind Author:Jake Tapper
“There are some who support us and others who are on the other side. They bow to pressure from the international community. But there is no reason for any of them to be against our Palestinian concerns. We don't interfere in any of the domestic policies of other countries. We are a national movement and we are concentrating on our conflict and the battle against the Israeli occupation.” CountryReasonCommunitySupportPolicyBattleConflictConcernPalestinianInterfereIsraeli Author:Khaled Mashal
“It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the nature and significance of the issues for other reasons. If by philosophy we mean reasoned and thoughtful analysis, then it can address the moment, though not by confronting the "alternative facts" but by analyzing and clarifying what is at stake, whatever the issue is. Beyond that, what is needed is action: urgent and dedicated, in the many ways that are open to us.” MeanReasonPhilosophyMomentsActionBeliefTakenConcernThoughtfulSignificanceFraudDedicated Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we have achieved what we wanted to achieve, but there are also reasons for concern. Not everything turned out exactly as I would have liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and the principles contained therein and in our bill of rights.” ReasonValuesEffortAchieveConcernConstitutionSouth AfricaBeing PositiveBill Of Rights Author:Frederik Willem de Klerk
“The Republicans had their shot not long ago to address the real needs and concerns of everyday Americans, and they blew it. I think that's mitigated by the fact that we had a terrorist incident, there is a war, and there was a lot of proper focus on those issues, but over the time that they were there and had the leadership opportunity, they blew it. We got fired for a reason.” ThinkingLongWarRealReasonOpportunityFocusRepublicanConcernEverydayTerrorist Author:Tim Pawlenty
“It was assumed that you can't touch evangelical Christians. "Oh, they're the Republican Right. Stay away from those people. Don't even try to talk to them." Well, what's interesting is that there were evangelical Christians who were voting for Kerry. There were right-to-lifers who were voting for Kerry. And it's interesting to listen to the reasons why. To ignore that segment of the electorate is moronic. Particularly if you don't know who those people are, or what their concerns are.” PeopleTryingReasonChristianInterestingRepublicanConcernVotingEvangelical Author:Errol Morris
“There is age discrimination, but I think there are two kinds. One is when the employer is discriminating for specific reasons and doing it intentionally. The other is where you have managers who really aren't looking to discriminate but feel a little on edge because the candidate they're talking to is older. Sometimes they can even smell age concern on the part of the candidate and they wind up discriminating almost unconsciously.” ThinkingKindSometimesReasonAgeConcernDiscrimination Author:Nick Corcodilos
“When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life, I have learned that reason doesn't change many minds. But there's a more ordinary sense of resonableness, which involves not just logic but a sensitivity to other peoples real concerns, a desire to understand, even when you don't agree. Many people are reasonable in this way.I'm willing to think that the world will be made better by the conversations of reasonable people, even if there are unreasonable people and people who don't want to converse as well.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindRealReasonPhilosophyDesireConcernLogicAgreePhilosopherI Have LearnedSensitivity Author:Kwame Anthony Appiah
“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
“The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.” WorldHas BeensMatterReasonGrowsMajorsConcernCriticalAround The WorldContinentsCatastropheAfrican Continent Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.” NeedsLittlesIdeasHardReasonSeemsEasyRealizingPayConcernEnvironmentalCreditDebtCardsDietsSpheresFadesTerrificCredit CardDietingCredit Card Debt Author:Jon Meacham
“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.” PeopleCountryReasonBigsGovernmentExpectationsConcernVoteSocialismNannies Author:Lyn Nofziger
“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.” IfsReasonTodayAsksToo MuchTomorrowConcernBusyListsYesterdayGods WillAgendasSubmitItemsToo BusyYesterday And Tomorrow Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.” TryingBelieveWellsLongI CanReasonDoneMightDiesStrongI BelieveBornReligiousChancePracticePathDangerousCrimeHolyConcernScaredMissionsKill MeTake A ChanceFanaticsCan't ChangeMany FriendsSpeaking OutBeing ScaredReligious Fanatics Author:Waris Dirie
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.” PeopleIfsMayReasonLawValuesChurchReligiousPrinciplesPracticeDemocracyTeachingSubjectsExampleDemandConcernArgumentUniversalIncludingGods WillAbortionMotivatedTranslateProposalEvokeAmenable Author:Barack Obama