Participation Quotes - Page 18

• EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Expansion, Constitution, Significant

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• For me, the involvement of states in our national effort is not just because of their constitutional and legal responsibilities. It is also stems from a basic management principle. The chances of success are higher when we create a sense of participation for everyone; when we give everyone a stake in success.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Giving, Effort

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• Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is not a scheme that can be run by money. This scheme has to run with people's participation under the guidance of the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Motivation, Mps

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would be to empower people. And to force them towards participation in politics. If you look at most authoritarian states, they are very grim places to live in. The only good thing about it is fast internet. That's the only way you can find some meaning in an otherwise very dark and gloomy life.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Dark, People, Empowering

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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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 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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• The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where we are is huge and not closing. The implied unemployment rate is very high, labour force participation is very low, and the increase in wages in the second quarter was the lowest in 25 years. Before this turmoil, the U.S. economy was in better shape than Europe or Canada, but not strong.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Strong, Economy, Crisis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• 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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• In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted to raise tuition and cut social protections. These demonstrations are continuing in a variety of countries throughout the globe and embrace an investment in a new understanding of the commons as a shared space of knowledge, debate, exchange and participation.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Cutting, Police Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than any other country in the world, to my knowledge. In brief, speech should be protected up to participation in imminent criminal action.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Feelings, World

  "Chat With Chomsky". www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I would love to see more African-American females engaged in all aspects of sports. All of the research tells us that participation in sports has a very positive impact in both the short and long term. Girls who participate in sports have a higher self-esteem and are more likely to graduate from college, and 80 percent of female executives played team sports growing up.

  Laurel J. Richie

  Girl, Sports, Growing Up

  Source: aalbc.com

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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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• Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Successful, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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