concern quotes

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

- Matthew Arnold
  Literature and Dogma, ch.1.

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses. Time was when their plebiscite elected generals, Heads of State, commanders of legions: but now they've pulled intheir horns, there's only twothingsthatconcernthem: bread and games.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Of the people of Rome. Satirae, no.10, l.78^81 (translated by Peter Green).'Panem et circenses' is sometimes translated as 'bread and circuses'.

The Japanese should have no concern with business.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  From Sea to Sea.

For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as Igo,Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

-Plato
Apology, 30b (translated by H Tredennick).

Art should be independent of all clap-trapshould stand alone, and appeal totheartisticsense ofeye orear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'and 'harmonies'.

-James (Abbott) McNeill Whistler
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

- SirAngus FrankJohnstone Wilson
  No Laughing Matter.