Quotes About Participation

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

I'm tired now of the elections.

To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

I've been dipping my toes back into TV.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

All the participating countires in Tokyo 2020 were good, but this time we worked really hard and had the confidence that we can achieve it in Tokyo.

Curtailed, too, were hopes for a similarly democratic economy, based to any significant degree in joint local action in the interests of participating citizens. And yet, even in "failure," these movements profoundly altered the American system—at least for a time.

divides over cultural and identity-group issues often mask—in fact may be deliberately used to mask—unanimity at the top of the system when it comes to condoning or participating in corruption.

And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

There was an abundance of sweetness. But I often felt I was observing it from a distance, rather than participating in the sweetness.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism. We

Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum. Process and purpose are so welded to each other that it is impossible to mark where one leaves off and the other begins, or which is which. The very process of democratic participation is for the purpose of organization rather than to rid the alleys of dirt. Process is really purpose.

The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Chirst, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life. Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve did what they were supposed to do: they "eikoned." And cracked Eikons are being restored so that they can eikon now and so that they will eikon forever.

have to embody what I want the audience to be. If I want them to have fun, I have to have fun.

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.