Quotes About Participation

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

The strength of the democratic constitutional state lies precisely in its ability to close the holes social integration through the political participation of its citizens.

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas.

In other words, it is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning ? but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things. Love is akin to transcendence; it is but another name for creative drive and as such is fraught with risks, as all creation is never sure where it is going to end.

The Sabbath, thus, is more than an armistice, more than an interlude; it is a profound conscious harmony of man and the world, a sympathy for all things and a participation in the spirit that unites what is below and what is above. All that is divine in the world is brought into union with God. This is Sabbath, and the true happiness of the universe.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

As to your proposals that a poll shall be opened in every precinct, and that the whole shall take place on the same day, I do not personally object.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

Il mondo può anche chiederti di partecipare, ma la decisione di accettare la proposta viene presa di giorno in giorno.

Phone calls make a difference. Letters make a difference. Emails make a difference.

showing up in person makes the biggest difference of all

Become a foot soldier.