Quotes About Participation

We can't be spectators our whole lives, right? At some point we have to take a risk. Step into the action.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. -Camus

Activity = passivity.

We are in the world, mingled with it, compromised with it.

We inherit powers which are not immediately ours. I record the results of an activity of which I am not a part.

All zoology assumes from our side a methodical Einfühlung into animal behavior, with the participation of the animal in our perceptive life and the participation of our perceptive life in animality.

Go where events flow fastest. Specifically what does that mean? It means, simply, make contact with people. Get involved. Don't be a sideliner, watching events flow past. Plunge into the events yourself.

it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

This book has been designed not merely to be read but to be experienced.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

You came pretty late to my party— you'd better be able to dance until dawn

There's a name for systems like this that include humans: human-in-the-loop systems.

If you want to get the best people to run for office, weve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

driven conversation, no matter how small the participation, may destroy the testimony of a life. Listening to grumbling and ungodly attitudes eventually contaminates the spirit. The more we allow discontent to be taken in by our spirits, the greater the tendency to compromise our own speech patterns. We are being called to a high standard of living where the rewards for our faithfulness are eternal.

From my examination of many declining industries, the firms that seem to be the most objective about managing the decline process are those that also participate in the substitute industry. They have a clearer perception concerning the prospects of the substitute product and the threat of decline.

Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and brings them into the powerful sphere of Christ's benevolent lordship and community.

faith is an initial and ongoing participation in the faith (i.e., faithful death) of Jesus.

James Madison's logic in 1787 still holds, a further offering of this form will someday be made available to the world. Madison states: …extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult to all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other.42