Quotes About Involvement

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The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

Maybe he was dead and this island was purgatory from which he could only watch the souls of the more deserving go shuttling past to their various Edens. What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?

And then today the doctor tells us of this American who was cured of the same disease by a snail. Such a simple cure. Elegant, would you not say? A snail that accomplishes what laboratory capsules cannot. Allah, we reason, must be involved in something so elegant. So you see.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

He should, at least temporarily, take the less dangerous course of acting like a private citizen.

arranged Tiberius' divorce from her without consulting him;

sociological research is part of a continuous 'two-way' process between sociologists and the subjects they study.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.

I love provincial politics.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.