Quotes About Participation

Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.

knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.

Make a picture in your mind." She then asks, "How many of you do that? Karla, your hand went up really quickly. Would you have done that back in March?

Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.

A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

we are participating in His actual work.

Once people see the participatory nature of their thought, they begin to separate themselves from their thought. They begin to take a more creative, less reactive, stance toward their thought.

Bowling Alone

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they're essential to our wellbeing.

He'd tell us that in a democracy, keeping abreast of current events was a citizen's most important duty and that you could never start too early to be informed about the news of the day.

Je veux que le lecteur comprenne bien ce qui était en jeu pour moi à ce moment-là. Les guerres d'insurrection et de contre-insurrection sont extrêmement vicieuses puisqu'elles impliquent personnellement tous les hommes, militaires ou civils, des deux camps, qui se trouvent être dans le théâtre d'opérations. Personne ne peut se permettre de rester neutre et de regarder les événements en spectateur. Alors

If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.

We vote every time we make a choice. We vote with our lives.

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

living life instead of just thinking about it.

I must dive back into the festivities. I must swim within the conversations, swim from gift to gift, wish to wish. Some people swim to get somewhere. Others swim to stay in shape, or to get faster. Right now, I'm going to swim so I won't drown.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation.

Most importantly, perhaps, they would invent a new politics which depended on participation and consent, rather than on the top-down autocracy of Rome.

No one should believe those who surround "the ballot box with obstacles and sinuosities . . . intended to . . . defeat . . . the elective franchise.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.