Quotes About Participation

Building everything from the bottom up is just as bad as top-down. In its egalitarian, power-to-the-people enthusiasm, GREEN sometimes puts too much of its energy into the lowest echelons. Everybody gets a say, whether competent or not. Nobody's opinion carries more weight than anyone else's. When misapplied, this noble philosophy only leads to a pooling of ignorance and wasted time. The one or two people with real expertise are shouted down by know-nothings getting their share of consensus.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.

Social cohesion and volunteering encourage good citizenship

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

Don't be absent from your own life.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Life is a game, play it.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Whether you want to or not, now we'll always be a part of here.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.