“All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.” IfsHumansTwoFormSpiritualityTermDealsAttentionIssuesIdentityConcernedEmpowermentDecadenceExplicitLapsesSatanism Author:Dallas Willard
“The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.” PeopleHumansImportantGovernmentHappensLawUsedIndividualTermRightsEuropeConcernedImportanceInternationalHuman RightsJewRelatedGenocideIndigenousAccusationInternational LawIndigenous PeopleExterminationCollectivity Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.” MadeIdeasRealityMy OwnMastersConcernedPianoNew Ideas Author:Nina Simone
“I'm really excited about our DJ set. That's probably the most exciting of all. It's selfish but it's always your own thing that you're most concerned with.” ConcernedExcitingExcitedSelfishDjs Author:Jack Black
“For me personally, I don't go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I'm concerned that I'll see something that will upset me, and I don't have a way to work it out with that person.” WayPersonsSometimesHelpingConcernedUpsetHelp MeWorking ItHubby Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.” PeopleMenGovernmentTogetherWhiteConcernedProgramTrainDecentDriversFederal GovernmentMississippiCongressmanJamieTractors Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat of Capricornia is based. I have to tell you that people in Queensland, but particularly regional Queensland, are very concerned about jobs. They are very concerned that the economic future for themselves and their children and their grandchildren should be - should be clear.” PeopleShouldChildrenFactsJobsClearEconomicConcernedYesterdaySeatsGrandchildrenQueensland Author:George Brandis
“One of the senior Labor frontbenchers from Queensland, Terri Butler, said that she was against the Adani mine. So that is the clearest statement we've had from a person who would be a member of a Shorten government, that if there were to be a Shorten government as far as she's concerned, the Adani mine wouldn't go ahead. People in Rockhampton know that and they're very worried about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidGovernmentWould BeMinesMembersConcernedLaborStatementsWorriedSeniorButlersQueensland Author:George Brandis
“I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.” IfsHas BeensWould BeTrumpMessagesNewsConcernedArgumentClintonSecretary Author:Star Jones
“I am far more concerned about policies of the Democratic administration and Democratic Party that infringe on the rights of religious institutions and practices and open the door for using taxpayer dollars for abortions, to which many Americans have profound moral objections. Those are steps that would show a lack of respect for Catholics and their institutions.” ShowsReligiousPartyMoralStepsPracticeRightsDoorsPolicyConcernedCatholicInstitutionsDollarsDemocraticProfoundAdministrationAbortionDemocratic PartyTaxpayersObjectionsLack Of Respect Author:John I. Jenkins
“How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!” PeopleWorldShouldDifferentProblemModernGoes OnConcernedKillingModern WorldKilling Each Other Author:Indira Gandhi
“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.” MenSaidMotherNightCertainHouseMorningBrotherConcernedCookingMovedIllCooksHatedGrandmotherRidingGrandfatherPaleMy GrandmotherDoing NothingMy GrandfatherLet Her GoPurdah Author:Indira Gandhi
“Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.” JobsConcernedSatisfiedMinistersPrimeVillagePrime Minister Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayImportantDifferentIssuesEnvironmentJudgmentConcernedBlindObsessionObsessedDifferent WorldsImportant Issues Author:Bell Hooks
“I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.” AudienceConcernedMateriality Author:Patricia Piccinini
“As far as liberals are concerned, the Democrats are concerned, when the New York Times clears you, you are cleared.” New YorkConcernedDemocratNew York Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.” PeopleReasonHomeRolesViolenceConcernedSticksGenderReason WhyCommentaryGender RolesViolence Against WomenStay At Home Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“We don't need to save the Earth. I think the Earth is doing very well right now. And, it's mirroring the density within us, showing us what we need to shift - and that we are shifting. It's all very positive, as far as I'm concerned.” ThinkingNeedsWellsEarthRight NowConcernedShiftingVery PositiveDensityMirroring Author:Christine McCormick Day
“I love everything about that because when he goes out there Javy Baez is not afraid of making a mistake, and that's big thing when you get players that are en masse not concerned about making mistakes, really good stuff can happen. That's, he leads the pack with that.” BigsHappensStuffMistakePlayerConcernedMaking MistakesNot AfraidPacksBig Things Author:Joe Maddon
“The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.” InformationMovementConcernedIranEcologicalCovert Author:Akbar Ganji
“I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.” YearsLooksMeanCasesIssuesKingsConcernedDeeperPrimeActivistConnectingLuther Author:Bill Ayers
“As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.” Concerned Author:Noam Chomsky
“Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.” IfsStudyConcernedAffairAverage Author:Erich Fromm
“The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.” IfsKnowsMeanSometimesSpeakLosesSleepConcernedAverage Author:Erich Fromm
“We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.” Concerned Author:Erich Fromm
“Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.” MenLittlesEndsTodayReligiousConcernedProductionsConsumptionReligious Experience Author:Erich Fromm
“We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.” SocialImaginationConcernedTechniqueArrangementsImaginative Author:Erich Fromm
“The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsCountryMatterHomeBlackChallengesJusticeDealsIssuesMovementConcernedFundamentalsFocusedCriminalsActivistPlatformsJerseyBlack Lives MatterUrgencyStay FocusedJustice SystemNew JerseyCriminal JusticeBaltimoreCriminal Justice SystemCommonalityOaklandBlack Lives Author:Cory Booker
“No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our business. Few people even recognize that this situation is in part an outgrowth of US policies going back to the 1980's. Nobody is concerned because Nicaragua is technically stable.” PeopleIfsAmericaSituationMillionsPolicyConcernedStableStarvationNicaraguaCentral AmericaHonduras Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?” PeopleMenTryingKindMeanCountrySeemsSufferingPoorWrittenLike YouEasierSolutionsConcernedFellowsClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingElitesOther CountriesAbstractionPoor PeopleNicholas Kristof Author:Tucker Carlson
“Chicken breast is the driest, [most] tasteless part of the chicken as far as I'm concerned.” ConcernedBreastsChickens Author:Paula Deen
“I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.” PeopleKindPastConcernedClinton Author:Rashid Khalidi
“It's what [Hillary Clinton] embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and so forth. Because logically none of this makes any sense, as you are encountering. So you're trying to confront all these people with logic, and I would maintain to you that they don't have any where this is concerned.” PeopleTryingChildrenParentConcernedLogicClintonMystiqueParent Child Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.” Has BeensArtistNaturalConcernedVisualsPresentationArtworkVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:PJ Harvey
“If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.” IfsWellsClearListeningConcernedSignalsDriftingImprovising Author:Reggie Watts
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.” ThinkingStatesCertainRedConcernedTerrorismSecureExcessPatriotPatriot Act Author:Barack Obama
“I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.” PeopleThinkingWantAbleGayConcernedPropertyDiscriminationHospitalsBreakdown Author:Barack Obama
“Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.” TryingWellsWishMy OwnDoubtConcernedMissionsActiveSpiteMy ThoughtsMistrust Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“I think, you know, what we've had for many years is a federal government that's not particularly concerned with the structure of the economy at all, just looking at the basic rules. I think we're going to see a different approach under Donald Trump with more kind of specific concern for the health of the manufacturing sector. I'm not necessarily sure that's a bad thing.” ThinkingKnowsYearsKindDifferentGovernmentEconomyTrumpApproachConcernConcernedStructureBad ThingsFederal GovernmentManufacturingDifferent Approach Author:Edward Alden
“We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.” ConcernedVoters Author:Keith Ellison
“The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.” PoorCasesConcernedScriptureOverwhelmingForeignersWidowsOutcastMarginalized Author:Sho Baraka
“I am deeply concerned - about virtually everything that Trump is talking about and has talked about in his campaign and the kind of people that he is appointing.” PeopleKindTalkingTrumpConcernedCampaigns Author:Bernie Sanders
“Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.” PeopleShouldHeartGovernmentIssuesPoliticianQuietConcernedChinaDisrespectful Author:Ai Weiwei
“I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.” BelieveWantedI BelieveConcernedFbi Author:Manning Marable
“When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.” FeelsDifferentPlayRolesSeriousSkillsConcernedComicMuscles Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.” DemocracySurvivalConcerned Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“I also think we have got other great choices to make. The conclusion has not been made. There's no announcement that's coming today, as far as Secretary of State is concerned.” ThinkingMadeStatesTodayChoicesConcernedConclusionSecretaryAnnouncements Author:Reince Priebus
“If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. I find it means you have to dumb down your message to something less radical than the gospel. It can't be the real gospel. It has to be "churchiness" that pleases everyone, so they come back next Sunday and keep putting money in the collection plate. I don't mean that in a cynical way. I just think it's what happens.” IfsThinkingWayMeanRealHappensNextPayMiddlePleaseMessagesConcernedOrganizationBillsRadicalDumbCollectionsSundayCynicalPlatesSalary Author:Richard Rohr