Quotes About Involvement

Pope's favorite phrase is, "You need to be present to win,

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Man's capacity to rise above his social and historical situation seems to be conditioned by the sensitivity with which he recognizes the extent of his involvement in it.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...

Meanwhile everything matters — that concerns you.

Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.

e ela concluiu que a vinda de Selden, se não provava que ele ainda estava envolvido com Mrs. Dorset, mostrava que ele estava completamente livre a ponto de não temer a proximidade dela.

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

When we read Christ's words "my kingdom is not of this world," many of us are inclined to understand it as an argument against Christian involvement in politics, for example. Instead, Jesus was saying that his kingship does non arise out of (Greek: ek) the perverted earth but derives from heaven.

administration involvement with the moral clichés of internationalism (derived from liberal and radical ideas of the nineteen thirties) is probably as great a source of current confusion as anything else

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Una delle principali premesse di questo studio è che un totale coinvolgimento con ciò che si sta facendo è la condizione essenziale del piacere. Un coinvolgimento parziale ci lascia divisi e in conflitto. p. 12

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Many mothers and father return each evening from their paid jobs only to serve as homework monitors, a position for which they never applied.

When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap.

I think the proposition still holds good that men of letters who aspire to high distinction do well not to disdain altogether the politics of their time.