Quotes About Participation

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

Don't live life as a spectator.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

The artist gives the beholder increasingly 'more to do,' he draws him into the magic circle of creation and allows him to experience something of the thrill of 'making' which had once been the privilege of the artist

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.

Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.