Social Engagement Quotes

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

I'm 60 years old, and I want to enjoy life, and I want to be free to speak for my country.

Wherever I go, I get a sense of longing for community and the desire on the part of grassroots citizens to be part of something bigger and far nobler than themselves. This attitude is particularly evident among the young, many of whom feel deprived of a great cause in which to enlist. .

We thought of cultural activities as a way of taking players out of their comfort zone and building team spirit, helping them be braver, and a bit more comfortable in the uncomfortable situations.When you involve the community in that they get interested.

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate and plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people, can be most engaged in.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed as radical.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

I'm always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they're a little weird. I'll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

All real living is meeting.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

I'm big into my Twitter account.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.