Quotes About Participation

A vote isn't just a piece of paper: it's a person's way of weighing in on who should be running the country, so not voting is the same as throwing away their say in the matter.

Apolitical people are often unaware of the procedural aspects of voting.

Democracy is a much more brilliant idea than it seems.

Democracy is never far from Transparency just like the term Democracy is not far away from explaining what the term Unity means.

Fear is an excellent motivator, and voting is no exception.

Free and independent media underpin any vibrant democracy.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

Many people take for granted that they always have and always will have the right to vote, but shedding doubt on that may be enough to make people realize that they shouldn't squander their votes.

One of the biggest reasons that people don't vote is because they don't see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote.

One of the most effective ways there is of getting people to vote is by simply asking them to.

Ready to make your voice heard? Go and vote.

The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.

The person's vote does make a difference.

Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.

Voting shapes the future.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

I have danced the fandango; no more able to help myself when the girl and the castanets began, than the holy cardinals, who, when they came to Madrid to excommunicate the cachuca, ended by joining in it! Like the rest of us, I suppose, they found forbidding a thing to other people, very easy and pleasant, but going without it themselves rather more difficult.

Ser capaz de experimentar las representaciones como ídolos, y además ser capaz de ejecutar conscientemente el acto de figuración y de experimentarlas como participadas: eso es la imaginación.

I would recommend that the reader picture the final participation as a direction in which we had all better be moving, rather than as a beatific consummation at which we might in some remote future arrive.

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

To live is not enough; we must take part.

Héctor se dio media vuelta y salió de la habitación. Estaba dispuesto a jugar el juego, siempre y cuando alguien le avisara de quién era la pelota, dónde era el partido que se jugaba, contra quién jugaban y cuáles eran las reglas.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.