Participation Quotes - Page 2

• Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

  Howard Rheingold

  Surveillance, Openness, Antidote

  "Howard Rheingold about our mobile world". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. July 20, 2006.

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• Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation.  It is about the grace that comes from working together.

  Marc Benioff

  Grace, Working Together, Philanthropy

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• Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, People, Essentials

  "India: Urgent Call to Halt Odisha Mega-Steel Project Amid Serious Human Rights Concerns". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. October 01, 2013.

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• ...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Successful, Quality, Revolution

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• The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Positive, Meaningful, Steps

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Laughter, Unique

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Government, Citizenship

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Purpose, Divinity

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• Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Demand

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

  Harvey Cox

  Struggle, World, Comic

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• 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

  Government, Expression, Essence

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• I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Photography, People, Giving

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• [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Grief, Fate, Psychology

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

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Creativity, Political, Management

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• Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Teaching, Learning

  "Deschooling Society". Book by Ivan Illich, 1971.

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• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Wisdom, Women, Recovery

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• 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

  Law, Political, Elements

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• The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.

  George E. P. Box

  Numbers, Risk, Important

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• 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 artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

  John F. Kennedy

  Appreciation, People, Presidential

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It's the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Time, Moving, Eye

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• Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

  Michael Manley

  Believe, Mean, Rights

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• The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Teacher, People, Roles

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• There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.

  Peggy Noonan

  Communication, Grateful, Believe

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• Participation is bliss because the whole universe is celebrating. Every moment it is celebrating. It is a great celebration, a constant celebration. Only we are not part of it. We have detached ourselves and are in misery. Man is in misery because of the mind. The flowers are participating in the celebration, the moon is participating, the stars are participating, the earth is participating, the oceans are participating, the air and the clouds - everything is participating in that continuous, eternal celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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