Quotes About Participation

As an added benefit, having a student stand up and address the room will quickly bring all other distracted chit-chat to an end, since people rarely want to be rude to their peers.

democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;

for small donors to participate, but large donors continue to dominate.) Even before the Supreme Court's grotesque 2010 decision

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

Later in 1923, he was one of forty-six Bolsheviks of the Left who signed a secret memorandum to the Politburo which spoke of "the ever-increasing, and now scarcely concealed, division of the party between a secretarial hierarchy and 'quiet folk,' between professional party officials recruited from above and the general mass of the party which does not participate in the common life."[483]

about speaking up to Sitters, or

cooperative, inter-agency and intra-agency effort in which all points of view are represented and have a hearing, and where people and institutions have a say in shaping the future structure, we can in fact bring about real change.

Faith is not merely a way of knowing; it is also a way of participating.

They make it a habit of never volunteering.

THE CONE OF LEARNING Edgar Dale gets credit for helping us to understand that we learn best through action—doing the real thing or a simulation. Sometimes it's called experiential learning. Dale and his Cone of Learning tell us that reading and lecture are the least effective ways to learn. And yet we all know how most schools teach: reading and lecture.

Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.