Quotes About Participation

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but the power to share it would have made him less apart.

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

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never have the time to participate in. And that, of course, was the problem with any large collection of books, whether in a library or a bookshop: one might feel intimidated by the fact that there was simply too many to read and not know where to start.

Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.

Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.

Leadership, Boal concluded, is the art of facilitating imaginative interventions by the greatest possible number...

most people do not participate in the making of culture.

The first 350 families agree to participate on the panel would each receive a Tandy personal computer, with 133 MHz Intel Pentium processor; a Hewlett-Packard combination printer, fax, and copier; the most advanced Nokia cellular phone; and an AT&T telephone that was not yet on the market and that offered so many features the company called it a "personal information center.

We today lack a theology of growth. And so we need to learn how we "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). In particular, we need to learn to cooperate with "the means of grace" that God has ordained for the transformation of the human personality. Our participation in these God-ordained "means" will enable us increasingly to take into ourselves Christ's character and manner of life.

that democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.

the group does not accept a simple majority as a proper basis for action.