Quotes about Participation

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

In fact, the best of modern theology is revealing a strong "turn toward participation," as opposed to religion as mere observation, affirmation, moralism, or group belonging. There is nothing to join, only something to recognize, suffer, and enjoy as a participant.

Clearly, you are participating in a Love that's being given to you. You are not creating this. You are not generating this. It is being generated through you and in you and for you. You are participating in something larger than yourself and you are just allowing it and trusting it for the pure gift that it is.