Quotes About Participation

Multiculturalism attacks individualism by defining people as mere manifestations of groups (racial, ethnic, sexual) rather than as self-defining participants in a free society. And one way to make racial, ethnic, or sexual identity primary is to destroy alternative sources of individuality and social cohesion, such as a shared history, a common culture, and unifying values and virtues.

Thank you," I said to Linus. "Of course. This is what I'm here for. It's my function as your witness." He grinned again. "Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.

Meetings run best when there are clear rules or norms to follow. These are sometimes difficult to set at the start of the meeting. People may feel reluctant to speak up and suggest rules or there may be pressure to start discussing the agenda items.

Why have you LEFT POLITICS? LEFT POLITICS needs you!

a large minority of human beings are mentally equipped to take part in the advance of physical science

En cierto modo —dijo— diría que hoy es más fácil desaparecer. Con la sociedad cada vez más heterogénea, con individuos cada vez más egocéntricos, ¿a quién puede importarle que una persona más, una menos, se escurra sin ruido a través de los movimientos mecánicos de una mínima participación social?

Even a hungry audience is better than a deaf audience.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

edad no tiene que suponer una limitación para continuar siendo enérgico y creativo y para participar en el mundo. Como ahora se

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.

Gigabit Opportunity Zones would enable Americans to become participants in, rather than spectators of, the digital economy. They would be a powerful solution to the digital divide. I hope our elected officials will give the idea serious consideration.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.