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Quotes About Involvement

Two people alone cannot answer a policeman's questions anywhere in the world. It takes a whole country to speak to a policeman, and Tina and I—we do not have one.
~ Rex Stout
I'm pissed off because of all the fuckin' people who shut their eyes while others are victimized because it doesn't benefit them to get involved. It pissed me off that every-fuckin'-body is such a tough guy until a tough situation is actually present to them. Then they become crying little pussies blaming the world and everything it in.
~ Reymundo Sánchez
If you want to advance a private interest, turn it into a public cause.
~ Rich Cohen
Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke and transatlantic pipelines need to be stopped and towns are blown up in fertilizer explosions or schools for impaired children need to be built, Willie shows up. Does the show for free. For three hours. Everyone has a good time, and somewhere, Bono squirms just a little bit on that self-righteous cross he's nailed himself to.
~ Rich Hall
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
~ Richard Branson
Otra buena manera de reunir a sus colaboradores es proponerles que conformen un equipo y participen en eventos de beneficencia o comunitarios.
~ Richard Branson
Nowhere is follow-through needed more than in your parenting.
~ Richard Bromfield
The towering genius is not apolitical.
~ Richard Brookhiser
The most important part of civics education is to turn students into active citizens.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
Redemption is participatory, not imitative.
~ Richard F. Lovelace
The growth of the mass media of communication and their use in politics have brought politics closer to the people than ever before and have made politics a form of entertainment in which the spectators feel themselves involved. Thus it has become, more than ever before, an arena into which private emotions and personal problems can be readily projected. Mass communications have made it possible to keep the mass man in an almost constant state of political mobilisation.
~ Richard Hofstadter
This is what people do- solve their own problems in others' lives.
~ Richard Powers
This is what people do—solve their own problems in others' lives.
~ Richard Powers
God can never be experienced apart from your best interests being involved.
~ Richard Rohr
Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.
~ Richard Rohr
spirituality" which means that things are only found to be true in the doing of them.
~ Richard Rohr
We must participate in this world that has birthed us. We must not sit around in rawhide rocking chairs with our heads sunk in grief, while the waters trickle past. We must join the waters.
~ Rick Bass
He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.
~ Rick Warren
The point of living in the world is just to stay interested
~ Kathleen Rooney
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
~ Kathrine Switzer
If everyone just sweeps outside their door, the whole village will be clean," Merkel said sometimes, quoting Goethe.
~ Kati Marton
She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.
~ Katie Fforde
In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines.
~ Ken Follett
If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.
~ Ken Follett