Quotes About Participation

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The minimalist storyteller deliberately gives this last critical bit of work to the audience.

You can't win a game you don't play

the good citizen is the one who knows when voting is the wrong way to decide a question, as well as when voting is the right way. For

He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I'd take an oath he even plots in his sleep.

Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.

to come out from under and get involved

function for them? Or are you just some kind of onlooker?

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain. Neurologists have found that, when watching television or film, the viewer's eyes remain idle, straight ahead, but when reading, the actual physical movement of scanning the page from left to right (or right to left, or up and down, depending) stimulates and conditions the brain, a Stairmaster of the mind.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?

And I won't stand in a corner anymore. I will step up. I will become part of the world I live in, even when it's scary. Because life is scary, but it still beats the alternative.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.