2013, Commencement Address at Ohio State University (May 2013)
Context: Only you can make sure the democracy you inherit is as good as we know it can be. But it requires your dedicated, informed, and engaged citizenship. This citizenship is a harder, higher road to take. But it leads to a better place. It is how we built this country – together. It is the question President Kennedy posed to the nation at his inauguration; the dream that Dr. King invoked. It does not promise easy success or immediate progress. But it has led to success, and it has led to progress.
That brings me to the second thing I ask of you – I ask you to persevere.
Quotes about engagement
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1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)
Context: It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested. Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury. It should be as much the aim of those who seek for social- betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence. Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
We Will Not Be Terrorized (December 2015), Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)
Par l’art seulement, nous pouvons sortir de nous, savoir ce que voit un autre de cet univers qui n’est pas le même que le nôtre et dont les paysages nous seraient restés aussi inconnus que ceux qu’il peut y avoir dans la lune. Grâce à l’art, au lieu de voir un seul monde, le nôtre, nous le voyons se multiplier, et autant qu’il y a d’artistes originaux, autant nous avons de mondes à notre disposition, plus différents les uns des autres que ceux qui roulent dans l’infini et qui, bien des siècles après qu’est éteint le foyer dont il émanait, qu’il s’appelât Rembrandt ou Vermeer, nous envoient encore leur rayon spécial.<p>Ce travail de l’artiste, de chercher à apercevoir sous la matière, sous de l’expérience, sous des mots, quelque chose de différent, c’est exactement le travail inverse de celui que, à chaque minute, quand nous vivons détourné de nous-même, l’amour-propre, la passion, l’intelligence, et l’habitude aussi accomplissent en nous, quand elles amassent au-dessus de nos impressions vraies, pour nous les cacher entièrement, les nomenclatures, les buts pratiques que nous appelons faussement la vie.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes"
2018, Speech at the University of Illinoise Speech (2018)
2015, Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
As quoted in " Xi Jinping’s quest to revive Stalin’s communist ideology https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/10/16/xi-jinpings-quest-to-revive-stalins-communist-ideology/?utm_term=.a350d0a610c0" Washington Post
2010s
The viceadmiral thought his son crazy; but soon discovered he was a Quaker. He then employed every method that prudence could suggest to engage him to behave and act like other people. The youth answered his father only with repeated exhortations to turn Quaker also. After much altercation, his father confined himself to this single request, that he would wait on the king and the duke of York with his hat under his arm, and that he would not "thee" and "thou" them. William answered that his conscience would not permit him to do these things. This exasperated his father to such a degree that he turned him out of doors. Young Penn gave God thanks that he permitted him to suffer so early in His cause, and went into the city, where he held forth, and made a great number of converts; and being young, handsome, and of a graceful figure, both court and city ladies flocked very devoutly to hear him. The patriarch Fox, hearing of his great reputation, came to London — notwithstanding the length of the journey — purposely to see and converse with him. They both agreed to go upon missions into foreign countries; and accordingly they embarked for Holland, after having left a sufficient number of laborers to take care of the London vineyard.
The History of the Quakers (1762)
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 60
2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)
Original: È affascinante l'intelletto di una persona che ha sempre una risorsa, che invece di abbattersi per un problema cerca una soluzione. La mente rimane il posto più interessante e coinvolgente di un essere umano.
Source: prevale.net
“inclusion + engagement = execution muscle”
Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”
Source: Leaving Time
“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.”
“Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?”
Source: To Die For
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.
Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
“As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
Source: Marx in Soho: A Play on History
Source: Magic Breaks
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
“Stop the Madness,” Interview with Rupert Cornwell, Toronto Globe and Mail (6 July 2002) (see http://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/7463/ )
1960s, (1963)
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Source: The Woman in White
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 40.
As quoted in Business Wit & Wisdom (2005) by Richard S. Zera, p. 164
Imam's Sahife. vol. 16, p. 349,350. (21 June 1982)
Foreign policy
92nd Street Y Cultural Center (2007)
About the defeat of Jaipal. Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi, in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 24-25.
Quotes from Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII, Part First, p. 610.
2010s, Update on Investigations in Ferguson (2015)
'Batman' Co-Star Julie Newmar Remembers Adam West: 'He Had It All' http://www.etonline.com/news/219389_batman_star_julie_newmar_remembers_adam_west/ (June 10, 2017)
Opinion: Like Father, Like Son http://www.aawsat.net/2015/02/article55341622/opinion-like-father-like-son, Ashraq Al-Awsat (February 20, 2015).
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter VI, Karl Marx, p. 148
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
"Iraqis Must Share in Their Liberation", Washington Post (March 30, 2003)
Diary (14 February 1879)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
2010s, Update on Investigations in Ferguson (2015)
United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A-68-284_en.pdf.
2013
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 34: Third paragraph. Cited in: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1962). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise. p. 21-22
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1934/mar/08/air-estimates-1934#column_2072 in the House of Commons (8 March 1934)
The 1930s
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
Turning physicists into quantum mechanics (2007)
Nobel Lecture (2010)
History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
Tideman and Tullock 1976
James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and The Calculus (2012)
The Muslim Anarchist Charter (20 June 2005) http://archives-lepost.huffingtonpost.fr/article/2009/12/20/1849641_the-muslim-anarchist-charter-la-charte-anarchiste-musulmane.html