Quotes About Participation

#1. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Narendra Modi

#2. The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man.

Gordon W. Allport

#3. It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

Ela Bhatt

#4. We believe that the all-new ES 350 epitomizes Lexus' new design direction. Every element of this vehicle invites participation
both visual and tactile. Its design is something drivers will need to experience and not just observe.

Robert M. Carter

#5. We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

Tim Pawlenty

#6. Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#7. Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Harvey Cox

#8. Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#9. Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

Corazon Aquino

#10. A democracy can't succeed without people's participation. 'MyGov' empowers the people of India to contribute towards Surajya.

Narendra Modi

#11. Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#12. Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

Alison Owen

#13. The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual ...

Carl Jung

#14. Ambiguity begets participation.

Daniel J. Levitin

#15. I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Lucien Bouchard

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

Charles B. Rangel

#17. The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

Alison Owen

#18. Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

Mohamed El-Erian

#19. Just as the medieval church cut off the congregation from participating in the sung worship of the service, today many well-meaning Christian leaders have reconstructed a sung worship wherein congregational participation does not matter.

Douglas Bond

#20. Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#21. I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Diablo Cody

#22. In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication.

James Wasserman

#23. There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

Ricardo Semler

#24. Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#25. Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.

Marsha Petrie Sue

#26. [T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.
[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]

United Nations

#27. Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand.

Kara Goucher

#28. If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Kofi Annan

#29. Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Thomas Berry

#30. Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

Martin Filler

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

Mark Whitwell

#32. We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Paul Wellstone

#33. As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Angela Davis

#34. Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Idries Shah

#35. They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Bella Abzug

#36. Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

Janet Yellen

#37. The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Ted Hughes

#38. Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.

Gangai Victor

#39. It feels strange to be home, as if I am now just a visitor to the land that I love, no longer really a part of it. I understand for the first time that our sense of belonging is all about participation. We belong because we are part of the work of this place.

James Rebanks

#40. Every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

Joseph M. Juran

#41. A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

Nancy Chodorow

#42. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

Norman Cousins

#43. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#44. If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Mark Twight

#45. The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing - it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

Jean-Francois Cope

#46. As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#47. The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Joschka Fischer

#48. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015

Don Swann II

#49. Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

Jenny Shipley

#50. Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

Lynn Coady

#51. True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Priscilla Shirer

#52. A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.

Peter Kreeft

#53. Winning is something, but participation is everything.

Debasish Mridha

#54. The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.

David Guterson

#55. POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Ambrose Bierce

#56. 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

#57. spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

James Bryan Smith

#58. The study of Marxism outside of revolutionary struggle can form library rats, but not revolutionaries. Participation in the revolutionary struggle without the study of Marxism will inevitably be filled with hazards, be less confident, and turn out to be half-blind.

Joshua Rubenstein

#59. This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the beginning, people who will take seriously their divine responsibility to care for the earth and each other in loving, sustainable ways.

Rob Bell

#60. Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

Fred Upton

#61. Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

Flavor Flav

#62. Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

John Stuart Mill

#63. Social motivations can drive far more participation than personal motivation alone

Clay Shirky

#64. Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

David Whyte

#65. As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

Paul Robeson

#66. It is dangerous to build systemic reforms on a close association with one particular government. Systemic reforms need broad public participation and support. That is what makes them irreversible.

George Soros

#67. We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

Frank Carlucci

#68. 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.

David Whyte

#69. Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Noam Chomsky

#70. Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

David Cameron

#71. Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.

Paul Stanley

#72. Participation: What I intend to create is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people. For me it is the highest expression of humanity to contribute, to facilitate, to participate in the transformation of humanity.

Werner Erhard

#73. Misrecognition subverts the possibility of equal democratic participation.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#74. I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.

Carrie Brownstein

#75. Integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

Laozi

#76. People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

Marguerite Duras

#77. The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity ... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Marshall McLuhan

#78. With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Joshua Foer

#79. True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

Henry Scougal

#80. If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

Kenyon Martin

#81. Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#82. Because God is the subject who acts upon me in worship, my participation is not reduced to verbal responses or to singing, but it is living in the pattern of the one who is revealed in worship.

Robert E. Webber

#83. Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

#84. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Thomas Jefferson

#85. Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

Alexander Berkman

#86. Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Ron Lewis

#87. One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

Jessica Jackley

#88. Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Ban Ki-moon

#89. God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ...

Alfred North Whitehead

#90. If we are looking for a soft and malleable God who will stay safely within the boundary limits of conventional religious normalcy in His participation and impact upon our lives, then we are looking for a God who is not the God of the Bible.

Barton Jahn

#91. The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Sonia Johnson

#92. Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

Lucas Papademos

#93. Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life

Henryk Skolimowski

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

Alasdair MacIntyre

#95. During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

Frederick Reines

#96. Creating a meritocracy requires equal participation by both the hippo, who could rule the day by fiat, and the brave smart creative, who risks getting trampled as she stands up for quality and merit.

Eric Schmidt

#97. the Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity.

Marcus Aurelius

#98. A creature cloistered now by deliberate choice and still in the throes of enforced apprenticeship to, rather than voluntary or even acquiescent participation in, breathing

William Faulkner

#99. Active participation on LinkedIn is the best way to say, 'Look at me!' without saying 'Look at me!

Bobby Darnell

#100. The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting.

Leo Tolstoy