Community Participation Quotes

#1. We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty ...

Evo Morales

#2. I didn't ask any questions. I didn't think. The steroids did that for me.

A.D. Aliwat

#3. It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for democratic citizenship.

Karen Bohlin

#4. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Gustav Nossal

#5. husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93. Yiddish's

Diane Ackerman

#6. We must have increasing participation within the scientific community and reasonable scientific discussion, putting aside the stigma that UFOs are voodoo science before any real advances can be made in understanding the real nature of the UFO phenomenon.

Larry Holcombe

#7. It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#8. New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.

E.B. White

#9. Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

Gwen Jackson

#10. And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

Edward Said

#11. At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

Lynda Barry

#12. Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johann Georg Hamann

#13. The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.

Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Y Franco

#14. Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Ian Goldin

#15. No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

Pope Francis

#16. In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams

#17. Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Bill Gates

#18. The study of God requires intellectual effort, historical imagination, empathic energy, and participation in a vital community of prayer (Augustine, Answer to Skeptics).

Thomas C. Oden

#19. That ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.

James Gobbo

#20. Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

Balroop Singh