Quotes about Involvement

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

It's a lovely moment when everyone's part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn't necessarily do.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

The greater the involvement in another's life, the greater is the demand for sacrifice.

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.