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Quotes About Engagement

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
~ Christopher Reeve
I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.
~ Richard Edelman
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.
~ Erich Fromm
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
~ George Takei
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
~ Bill Ayers
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
~ Philip Yancey
I go through the motions of living in society
~ Wendy Rose
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
~ Robert Southey
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
~ Victor Pinchuk
I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
~ Kurt Russell
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.
~ Marina Abramovic
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
~ Mark Poster
I always have to do more to contribute to society.
~ Masiela Lusha
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
~ Arthur Balfour
Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
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.
~ Frank Lowy
The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.
~ Thomas Troward
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
~ William Osler
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
~ Jaggi Vasudev