Participation Quotes

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. (Samuel Richardson)
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. View quote
Rene Cassin
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Conflict cannot survive without your participation. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
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. View quote
Corazon Aquino
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. View quote
Bobby Scott
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. (Frank Carlucci)
Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating. View quote
Tom Glazer
Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life. View quote
Walter Annenberg
Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God. View quote
William Ames
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game. View quote
Susan Sontag
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. View quote
Paulo Freire
The purpose of organizations is to exploit the fact that many (virtually all) decisions require the participation of many individuals for their effectiveness. View quote
Kenneth Arrow
The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt. View quote
Peter Medawar
So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it. (John Kerry)
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. View quote
Eudora Welty
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself. View quote
Paul Claudel