Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not…

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be…

— Gerrit Smith

The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness.…

— Michio Kaku

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be…

— Patricia Arquette

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

— John F. Kerry

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

— Mark Dever

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became…

— Bob Barker

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

— Jonathan Safran Foer