#unconcern

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#color #education #emancipation #fact #justice

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#arrogant #be careful #blog #careful #combat

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#inconceivable #literature #sex #unconcerned

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#appear #beheld #city #funerals #indecent

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#carelessness #keep #needed #people #revival

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#because #easily #entitled #farmers #farming

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable