Participation Quotes - Page 18

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

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, People, Empowering

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2014

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• There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

  Scott Adams

  Criticism, Lines, Cynicism

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

  Seth

  Life, Motivational, Work

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• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  William Ellery Channing

  Beautiful, Perfect One, Silence

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• We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.

  Jerome Frank

  Men, Intelligence, Promise

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• 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.

  Bobby Scott

  Jobs, Skills, Drug

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• There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors

  Robin Cook

  Technology, Opportunity, Government

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• Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.

  David Bohm

  Player, Order, Games

  David Bohm's statement of 1987, as quoted in Joseph Riggio "Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems" (p. 66), June 2007.

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• Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Party, School

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.

  LaVell Edwards

  Would Be, Benefits, Favors

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Better Off

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world.

  Bill McKibben

  Kyoto, Energy, Gone

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Superficial Things, People, Regression

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The structures of the WTO need to be reformed to increase participation. There must be a greater sense of shared ownership of the substance of the trade negotiation agenda. Decisions about issues to be negotiated, and in which sequence they should be taken, should rest with all WTO members, not only the most powerful.

  Mary Robinson

  Powerful, Taken, Issues

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Success will be measured by change in the appallingly high levels of violence directed at women online and in the physical world, and change in the low levels of women's participation in public life.That change will require collective action, just as the changes so far have taken collective action.

  Tara Moss

  Taken, World, Violence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Political, Election

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies - from Zappos, to Starbucks, to American Apparel - for examples of how this idea might play itself out. We need to do more to make service jobs into higher-paying family-supporting jobs of the future.

  Richard Florida

  Empowering, Creative, Community

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You make the world - with enough strength and enough luck you make the world that you live in. If you accept that there's participation to be done and an existence to be had - I tend to think there is only one way I want to go through this existence and that's with my eyes open and my chest out.

  Will Oldham

  Eye, Thinking, Luck

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Struggle, Accomplishment, Excellence

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social - at the European level. I think that also opens up possibilities for Ireland as a European country to look outward - to look particularly, for example, at countries to which a lot of Irish people emigrated, to our links - our human links - with the United States, with Canada, with Australia, with New Zealand. And to look also, because of our history, at our links to the developing countries.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspirations of women all over Africa, I must succeed for them. I must keep the door open for women's participation in politics at the highest level. That is both humbling and exciting.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Doors, Expectations, President

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Challenges, Democracy, Sound

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Rights, Empowering

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, Agreement, Germany

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

  Werner Herzog

  Curiosity, Spirit, Common

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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