Quotes About Participation

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.

Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

Hence insight may be regarded as the core of social knowledge. It is arrived at by being on the inside of the phenomenon to. be observed, or, as Charles H. Cooley put it, by sympathetic introspection. It is the participation in an activity that generates interest, purpose, point of view, value, meaning, and intelligibility, as well as bias.

Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.

Assign someone who isn't actively participating in the discussion to be the scribe, responsible for taking accurate notes. Session notes should contain an attendee list, invitees who did not attend, decisions made, actions to be taken and who is responsible for each, outstanding issues, and the high points of key discussions.

The Hunger Games gets people invested in a contest. People are rooting for their favorites, rooting for their survival. And suddenly, unwittingly, the people being oppressed are actually engaged in this form of entertainment...The way you get control of people is to make them participate, not just subjugate them.

So we hold endless meetings, everyone is consulted, we discuss everything, and eventually we reach a consensus. Sometimes we even make a decision. Then we go and have a good moan about it all.

In democracies,5 for example, females have often held no office or do so (as now) in such minuscule numbers as to be below even token representation. Aristocracy,

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played.

There would be leaves in the fall, and snow in the winter, and cherry blossoms in the spring. The world had always looked painfully beautiful to him when he was sick. It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.

And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played.

Unlike in autocracy, people are more responsible than the leaders in democratic system of governance as leaders reflect their voters' thoughts and actions.

Voting system can be the beginning of democracy, but quality and reliability of the service delivery system shows final face of the democracy.

Fear lives in the future. These athletes live in the present—the here and now. Their participation is fun and rewarding.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.

we can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

Congregational singing requires proximity. "If I am more than three feet away from you, I don't sing, because you might hear me. If I am less than three feet away, I do sing, because I can hear you.

Any place where we can go consistently and remain anonymous is not a witnessing church.

Being an American is a spectator sport.