Quotes About Involvement

function for them? Or are you just some kind of onlooker?

I knew he used to call the old man Saturday mornings to talk baseball or politics, trying to keep him from sinking into the marsh of incurious disapproval that swallows so many ancients.

Let's hear it again! The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is Tell them about the time you . . .

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.

It takes strength to participate in life.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

I always have to do more to contribute to society.

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.