Quotes About Participation

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

Everyone—including people who vehemently oppose any form of federal government—depend on a sprawling supply chain that can only function with federal oversight, and most of them pay roughly one-third of their income in taxes for the right to participate in this system.

The six other members of the Traitorous Eight bought shares, and Robert Noyce saw to it that his small alma mater, Grinnell College, was invited to participate.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either. We remember what we rehearse.

Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

Everybody is quiet. ?Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?? Miss Saunders asks. Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn't read none of it.

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

The ideal of a democratic political culture was about cooperating in the care of common arrangements, of practices in which, potentially, all could share in deciding the uses of power while bearing responsibility for their consequences.

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.

I'll go and help. (Chris) What are we supposed to do with you, Chris? Lob you at them? (Wulf)

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

The public is a part of my real life.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

I would make my own war movie for trick-or-treaters, one in which they would be the stars.