“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.” MenNeedsHumansRealPurposeHuman BeingsEconomyWorshipConcernCrisisLaysAncientGoldenFinanceIdolsDictatorshipConsumptionConsumerismLackingExesRuthlessIdolatryOverconsumptionGuiseImbalanceCfsCalves Author:Pope Francis
“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.” HumansDoeArtFormUsedTermHuman BeingsDealsExistenceDesignColorPaintingArt IsWeaknessConcernIntellectInventionRealmsAbstractSubstitutesConceptionContemptArrangementsImaginativeInner LifeProvincesPristineAbstract PaintingTerm Life Author:Edward Hopper
“Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.” HumansCareCan DoJusticeHuman BeingsExistenceConcernEssenceTimelessAbstractionHuman ExistenceTranscendentPerplexity Book:Who is Man? Source: Who is Man?
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.” HumansSelfSufferingWishHuman BeingsConcernProfoundIllTortureSicknessTreatmentContemptMistrustDesolationWretchednessIndignityIll Treatment Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.” WorldFirstsHumansRealWholeFeelingsIndividualCommunityHuman BeingsResponsibilityClearPlanetsConcernRootsImportanceInner PeaceGenuineAtmosphereOur FamilyLastingOur CommunityIndividual Responsibility Author:Dalai Lama
“The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.” HumansImportantHuman BeingsResponsibilityCommitmentConcernFellowsImportant ThingsSense Of Responsibility Author:Dalai Lama
“As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.” NeedsHumansCareHumanitySocialWealthHuman BeingsAnimalResponsibilityCompassionConcernSatisfactionInner StrengthCaring For OthersConcern For Others Author:Dalai Lama
“I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.” ThinkingYearsHumansSometimesChristianHuman BeingsLessonsEqualConcern Author:Patti Smith
“Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.” WayFeelsHumansMomentsHuman BeingsParticularDiscoveryConcernPoetry IsDiscovering Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsHumansChildrenEarthCommunityHuman BeingsViewsRightsLandDemandConcernStandingSeparationCompassionateWomens RightsExtensions Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.” BelieveHumansWellsHeartEarthFacesJesusI BelieveChristHuman BeingsAnimalCreationMy HeartCreaturesBirdJesus ChristConcernRiversFishesI Believe InWell BeingAnimal RightsExclusiveBackyardsLiving CreaturesFaith In Jesus Author:John Wesley
“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.” ThinkingWayNeedsFirstsHumansSpiritualSufferingSpiritualitySpeakChallengesReligiousHuman BeingsCenturyHonestyCivilizationProjectsIntellectualEthicsConcernTwentiesCriticalIrrationalDiscourseReligious FaithAccordCritical ThinkingInevitabilitySpiritual ExperienceHuman SufferingPublic DiscourseIntellectual Honesty Book:Letter to a Christian Nation Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“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
“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.” HumansStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsHuman BeingsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPoetTheoryConcernTonePriestsProposeQuality Of LifeJohnsonBureaucratsAmerican LifePolitical Theory Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.