Quotes About Participation

If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

I'm not a huge parade guy myself.

I like doing parades, particularly those where a lot of people turn out.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Our citizens must feel they are part and parcel of this country. This is essential.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.

Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.