Quotes About Participation

The novel, I believe, allows, encourages ways to experience the public – in time, with affect, in a communal space, with other people (characters), and in language that insists on individual participation. It also tries to illuminate and recover the relationship between literature and public life.

Church is not for spectators.

La fe nunca implica falta de acción. La fe es un deporte participativo. Significa actuar conforme a la verdad que Dios dice. O como me oirás decir varias veces: La fe actúa como si algo fuera así aunque no lo sea, para que así sea solo porque Dios así lo dijo.

A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.

Why does this matter? Because—as the Greeks knew—participation in the way you are governed not only heightens a collective sense of responsibility for the things government does, it also keeps our rulers honest and holds authoritarian excess at bay.

Traditionally, Indians did not carry on dialogues when discussing important matters. Rather, each person listened attentively until his or her turn came to speak, and then he or she rose and spoke without interruption about the heart of the matter under consideration.

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

Get involved with humanity and you find yourself morally compromised,' he said, unencouragingly.

their feet. And that vote may help them march away from the synagogue if the synagogue doesn't find effective ways to engage them.

There are four common ways of making decisions: command, consult, vote, and consensus. These four options represent increasing degrees of involvement.

To act out truth—to correspond to what is—is ultimately to participate in the way and life of Jesus Christ, the one who is truth incarnate: the embodied word, wisdom, and love of God.

In the coming 30 years, anything that is not intensely interactive will be considered broken.

God invites everyone to become a major-league player in His Kingdom. Unfortunately, when many find the task to be difficult, they become spectators instead. They walk off the field of play and sit in the stands, becoming mere fans of faith—or they become critics. If that has happened to you, get out of your seat, pick up your bat, and get back into the game.

Tilawa or recitation is an act in which your whole person – soul, heart, mind, tongue and body – should participate. Thus, to recite the Quran, as it deserves to be recited, is not a light task; but neither is it impossible nor difficult. Otherwise, the Quran could not have been meant for everyone; nor could it be the mercy and the guidance that it surely is.

The electronic revolution is like the social event of the season. Everybody has received an invitation. Those who choose not to attend will be left out in the cold listening to everyone else talk about what a marvelous time they had.

Fluxus explored art as a process, using the viewer, or the audience, to complete the work. It asked, What can art be?

It wasn't until 1975 that the Supreme Court ruled states couldn't create laws that discouraged women from participation on juries and 1994 when peremptory challenges based solely on sex were outlawed.

This book was written to be used. It is not meant simply to be read any more than you would sit down to read through an arithmetic book without any attempt to work out the problems it describes.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and... If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.

It is a fact that the human heart differs from all other species. While its function to the body is the same of all animals, its participation with human soul is both rhapsodic and fatal. -Rose

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

Likewise, however little man, in living, demands as just to himself, his duty toward justice remains infinite. The right to live cannot be paid by finite labour, only by infinite activity. Because you participate in the violence of all things, all of this violence is part of your debt to justice. All of your activity must go toward eradicating this: to give everything and demand nothing; this is the duty—where duties and rights may be, I do not know.

Siamo nodi di una rete di scambi, di cui questo libro è un tassello, nella quale ci passiamo immagini, strumenti, informazioni e conoscenza. Ma del mondo che vediamo siamo anche parte integrante, non siamo osservatori esterni. Siamo situati in esso. La nostra prospettiva su di esso è dall'interno. Siamo fatti degli stessi atomi e degli stessi segnali di luce che si scambiano i pini sulle montagne e le stelle nelle galassie.