Quotes About Participation

It was a limited engagement. When they stop coming, I limit the engagement.

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important

You talk to the boss about your ideas and things like that, and all he can say is yes or no. I mean, you don't open your mouth, you don't give him your ideas, you're not really trying.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

Sheldon S. Wolin

that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter, but

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.