Quotes About Participation

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830

I realize I didn't write those books to describe a landscape, but to continue being part of it.

But over four generations, the Soviet regime forced Jews to participate in and internalize their own humiliation—and in that way, Ala suggested, they destroyed far more souls. And they never, ever paid for it.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

I am interested in politics.

When people are given challenging responsibilities, autonomy to control their outputs, participation in decision making, and visible and valuable recognition, it meets virtually all of the criteria for effective rewards.

No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it.

along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

We do not live in a zoo so we will not act like it as a neighborhood, in order to be a great neighborhood each of us needs to do our part and start acting like it

merely engaging the culture implies the issue and exercise of power.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Si me lo dices, lo olvidaré; enséñamelo y lo recordaré; involúcrame y lo comprenderé»

Interest and participation in occult practices can be the door through which demons influence a person or become active in her life.

As I played the venereal game, like Tom Sawyer whitewashing his fence, I found that spectators didn't stay spectators long. If you should feel the urge, there are more brushes in the pail.

When you give people a choice about being a part of what's happening, they're more likely to be committed to a project. Is there a piece of something you are working on that you could open up to others? It

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

If we defer to titled winners, it is only because we regard ourselves as losers. To do so is freely to take part in the theater of power.

They are valid only if and when players freely play by them.

There is no finite game unless the players freely choose to play it. No one can play who is forced to play. It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play, cannot play. 3

World exists in the form of audience. A world is not all that is the case, but that which determines all that is the case. An audience consists of persons observing a contest without participating in it. No one determines who an audience will be. No exercise of power can make a world. A world must be its own spontaneous source. "A world worlds" (Heidegger). Who must be a world cannot be a world.

Who must play, cannot play.

Culture, on the other hand, is an infinite game. Culture has no boundaries. Anyone can be a participant in a culture—anywhere and at any time.