"I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated."
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"What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them."
"I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness."
"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
"All human suffering concerns each human being."
"There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns."
"Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man."
"The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires."
"It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles."
"We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others."
"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."
"It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great."
"[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone."
"Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."
"God cares about everything that concerns you, so feel free to talk to Him about anything."
"I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern."
"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."
"The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable."
"It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies."
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."