Quotes About Involvement

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

Philip thought; you have to do something to keep their attention.

Allies had stood on the sidelines, fighting minor wars, joining in only for the last eleven months. All their casualties put together were only a fraction of those suffered by the Soviet people.

Si tu ne t'intéresses pas à ce qui se passe autour de toi, alors tu es responsable de ce qui se passe.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

You can't wait until your son is old enough to throw a football to become an involved father. If you want him to enjoy playing catch with you when he's ten, you have to start enjoying him when he's a baby. (The same goes for girls, including the part where they'll need a baseball glove.)

The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Beginning in 1968, China also sent 110,000 troops to Laos to fight the war.

Even though a few Western historians have speculated about international Communist involvements in the Vietnam War, no primary source or personal accounts had been available for their research.

bu wen bu rou wen zi, wen zi bu ruo jian zhi. jian zhi bu ruo zhi zi, zhi zi bu ruo xing zi. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. But involve me, I will understand. XUN ZI (PHILOSOPHER, WARRING STATES PERIOD, 475–221 BC)

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.