Quotes About Participation

We've come to equate citizenship as an extension of market relations.

Popular participation is seen in positive terms, but – once we move beyond grand strategy to specific questions of priorities and tactics – primarily as backing agendas set from above.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

The ideals of the Enlightenment eventually led to civic emancipation, and however ferocious the opposition, the basic provision for civic equality between Jews and non-Jews would now appear to be largely uncontroversial, and in any case inalterable. To an extraordinary degree, modern Jews today now participate (or, at least, are legally and culturally permitted to participate) in the full range of social and intellectual life in the West.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

New City was the first church I'd ever been to in my twenty-two years as a Christian that had a substantial number of members who were economically poor, who came as full participants rather than objects of charity, who called out to be recognized as eyes or toes or thumbs of the body of Christ rather than simply as folks with empty bowls on the other side of the soup kitchen line.

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

on cultivating virtue upon practice] Rousseau held a similar view. The more a country asks of its citizens, the greater their devotion to it. "In a well-ordered city every man flies to the assemblies." Under a bad government, no one participates in public life "because no one is interested in what happens there" and "domestic cares are all-absorbing." Civic virtue is built up, not spent down, by strenuous citizenship.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.

palabra «misional» se entiende de una manera distinta cuando describe la naturaleza de la iglesia. En el mejor de los casos, no describe una actividad específica, sino la misma esencia e identidad de la iglesia cuando, en el contexto de su cultura, asume el rol que le corresponde en el relato de Dios y participa en la misión de Dios en el mundo.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

You must participate in competition, in struggle, in the life of the world. If you stop, you no longer exist. If you fall behind, you're dead.' Denying any notion of eternity, defining itself as a process of permanent renewal, advertising aims to vaporize human subjects, to transform them into obedient phantoms of becoming. And this skin-deep, superficial participation in the life of the world is supposed to take the place of the desire for being.

Ljude možete pustiti da pri?aju naširoko, oni ?e uvek biti zainteresovani za sopstvenu pri?u, ali treba, ipak, usko?iti s vremena na vreme, re?i nešto, minimalno.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

When we start to realize how amazing God's story is, a question naturally arises: "Who am I that I should get to be a part of the greatest story ever told?

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

None of the young people knows how to be part of a committee," Charlotte said. "They're basically unchurched.

Many times we get depressed with the shocking changes this life brings. Become aware of the phenomena of change and watch the time and tide change before you again and again. Participate in it with your whole being and bring about the change you want . Trust me, try it, attract the change, make the change and be the change. Let the change be seamless and keep getting organized , add creativity to it and get MickeyMized.

A finger in every pie.

Presume to put in her oar.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.