Quotes About Participation

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

With a community that large and engaged, it needs a more open process of governance

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.

Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will—a

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV…. Hot media are… low in participation, and cool media are high in participation or completion by the audience.

Those that are elected to take part in the communal council are called voceros (spokespeople) because they are the voice of the community, and when they cease to be so, because the community no longer feels they are adequately transmitting the ideas and decisions of the community, these people can and should be recalled.

La desigualdad conlleva grandes costos de eficiencia porque condiciona el acceso desigual de los agentes económicos a capacidades y oportunidades, y modela reglas del juego e incentivos que se pueden convertir en obstáculo para su participación plena»,

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

There is a lot about what is going on here that I don't understand. But I am participating anyway.

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

Antoine n'avait pas pu être alcoolique. Il prit comme remède de substitution la résolution de se suicider. Être alcoolique avait été sa dernière ambition d'intégration sociale, se donner la mort était l'ultime moyen qu'il voyait pour participer au monde. ("Comment devenir stupide", p41)

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

No less reassuring is what Cardinal Hosius says: "Although in Holy Mass we do not crucify Christ afresh, yet we make ourselves partakers in His death as much as if this were the case. In the Sacrifice of the Cross His death was with shedding of blood; in the Sacrifice of the Mass His death is bloodless and mystical, yet it produces the same fruit as the Sacrifice of Blood, just as if the latter were now being carried on.

She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means

WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!

Living the same house or even working side by side doesn't guarantee togetherness. Connection requires involvement.

Living in the same house or even working side by side doesn't guarantee togetherness. Connection requires involvement.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.