Quotes About Participation

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is not a scheme that can be run by money. This scheme has to run with people's participation under the guidance of the MPs.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.