Quotes About Engagement

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.

As citizens are we collaborationists? To collaborate is to cooperate; to be complicit is to be an accomplice.

The result is that citizenship, or what remains of it, is practiced amidst a continuing state of worry. Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.

A medieval aphorism summed up the traditional idea of the political, "that which touches all should be approved by all.

An authentic politics is not univocal; there will always be contested views about actuality, and how it is to be understood and acted upon. But it makes a great deal of difference if the parties concerned can assume that each has made a good-faith effort to speak truthfully.

Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each book - you should approach life - with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

all about reaction as opposed to action.

Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)

Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn't know for a fact that you're too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

Hey, man. Where have you been? (Dev) Out and about. You? (Talon) (Dev gave him a wicked grin.) Mostly in and out. (Dev)

Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)

Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.

Why'd he call you?" – Sundown "My charming personality." – Zarek

Shut up. What did you ask me, anyway?" – Sundown "Really? Good thing I didn't tell you to duck a bomb." – Sasha

Now that i'm here, what are your other two wishes?

I'm not an easy lay, Alexion" He actually smiled a real smile at her. It was charming and unexpected. I am.

What the hell are you doing here again? (Terri) I have a question. (Nathan) Tell you what. I'll give you my cell phone number so you can just call me the next time you have one, and save you all the effort of breaking and entering. Free up a lot of your day. (Terri)

Boredom . . . what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash

You're boring me, M'Ordant. Go away. V'Aidan You can't be bored. M'Ordant And a good thing, too, since I'd no doubt perish from it while in your company. V'Aidan