Quotes About Participation

Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.

Por este camino podemos deslizarnos hacía un mundo sin ciudadanos, de espectadores, un mundo que, aunque tenga las formas democráticas, habrá llegado a ser aquella sociedad letárgica, de hombres y mujeres resignados, que todas las dictaduras aspiran a implantar.

Cuando la gente de trabajo se abstiene y deja la política a los políticos el país se va al diablo.

La descentralización del poder es un principio liberal, a fin de que sea mayor el control que ejerce el conjunto de la sociedad sobre las diversas instituciones sociales y políticas. Salvo la defensa, la justicia y el orden público, en los que el Estado tiene primacía (no monopolio), lo ideal es que en el resto de actividades económicas y sociales se impulse la mayor participación ciudadana en un régimen de libre competencia.

Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And

Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And if such could happen, would it not be the case that as God experiences the continuing events of the world, we who are held in the life of God would also experience the continuing stories of earth?

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Indeed, the illusion that anyone can escape from the marks of his vocation is an aspect of romanticism common to every profession; those occupied with the world of action claiming their true interests to lie in the pleasure of imagination or reflection, while persons principally concerned with reflective or imaginative pursuits are for ever asserting their inalienable right to participation in an active sphere.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.

He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.

El cuerpo político sólo debe componerse de ciudadanos armados. En cuanto al censo, no es posible fijar la cantidad de una manera absoluta e invariable; pero debe dársele la base más ancha posible, para que el número de los que tengan parte en el gobierno sobrepuje al de los que queden excluidos de él.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

La fécondité absurde de la femme l'empêchait de participer activement à l'accroissement de ces ressources tandis qu'elle créait indéfiniment de nouveaux besoins.

É pela convergência destes dois factores - participação na produção e libertação da escravatura da reprodução - que se explica a evolução da condição da mulher.

We pretend that our present system is democratic, yet the people never have the chance nor the means to express their views on any problem of public life. Any issue that does not pertain to particular interests is abandoned to collective passions, which are systematically and officially inflamed.

Human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.