Quotes About Engagement

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.