Quotes About Involvement

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

I have no interest in politics. I have been offered to join politics, but I am not even interested in it even one per cent.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

There is no point in appearing in just a few episodes. If I do a show on television, it won't be for a few episodes only.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing Both Sides Now with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character them? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

never in peaceful times stand idle..

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

And since one of the main purposes of social policy is to keep the population passive, people with power are going to want to eliminate anything that tends to encourage the population to get involved in planning?because popular involvement threatens the monopoly of power by business, and it also stimulates popular organizations, and mobilizes people, and probably would lead to redistribution of profits, and so on.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth: Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy...everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

What's the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?" One time a student answered, "I don't know, and I don't care!

You decide your own level of involvement.

And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.

Non nobis solum. OR non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici (Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us)

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.