Quotes About Involvement

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The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

My job is to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't.

If you purposely get other people involved that you're not supposed to, that'll cost you Gary's life, too. Understand?

The way to come to tolerate and then enjoy being involved in the world is by being in the world.

If there is a problem somewhere," he said with his dry chuckle, "this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person—only one—will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it.

If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you? -Fr. Longère

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Be not solitary; be not idle.

Full-hearted fatherhood might save the world.

there was a deep emotional attachment involved.

I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Jessie Lorenz talked with her friend Herb Levine about his involvement in the 1977 504 sit-ins—the longest nonviolent occupation of a federal building. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was a federal law that outlawed discrimination based on disability in any program or activity receiving federal funding.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

I've been back less than two weeks, and already I've turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Primero eliminaremos a los subversivos; después a sus cómplices; luego a sus simpatizantes; por último, a los indiferentes y a los tibios

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.