One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. - Abbie Hoffman
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim. - Gustave Flaubert
CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - - Steve Maraboli
If you are not trying to participate or win then you are trying to fail. - Debasish Mridha
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin
Good literacy skills can help children:-Be healthy and safe.-Do their homework to their best ability.-Get and keep a job one day.-Eventually participate in local committees or government - Soraya Diase Coffelt
We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land. - Debasish Mridha
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. - Nina Guilbeau
You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals. If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty. - Compton Gage
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis. - Letty M. Russell
Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate. - Ashish Patel
Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate full in our lives. We train in the rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others. - Pema Chödrön
We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives. - Toni Sorenson
Pleasure and Pain participate equally in mounding character. - Abhijit Naskar
If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don’t participate, you are already a loser. - Debasish Mridha
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... - Clay Shirky
The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. - Chuck Palahniuk
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty. - Compton Gage
You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively. If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty. - Compton Gage
How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take. - Debasish Mridha
It is always better to fail than not to participate. - Debasish Mridha
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. - Thomas Jefferson
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty. - Compton Gage
Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is. - Debasish Mridha
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. - Elena Ferrante
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. - Elizabeth Gilbert
If you deliberately and passionately grieve over the consolations of darkness and participate with your spirit in their annihilation, you would put yourself above other forms of life and lives of other people. - Ivo Žurić
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. - Toni Cade Bambara
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. - L. M. K. Boelter
You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate - Debasish Mridha
If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty. - Compton Gage
When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed. - Stephen Richards
I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned" - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification. - Jean Baudrillard
Since when did the community become our moral compass—our viability and ethics as writers determined so much by our team spirit? ... What if all this communing actually hurts the primary means by which I set out to participate and communicate—my writing itself? - Meghan Tifft
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin
You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself. If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty. - Compton Gage
Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it. - Dionna L. Hayden
Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself. - Steve Maraboli
The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what? - Jonathan Heatt
God Provides by divine Power through knowledge of His Promises so that we Participate in divine nature in godliness. - Corey M.K. Hughes
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. - Judith Martin
When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get. - Matt Groening
To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. - Susan Sontag
The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it - George Ifeanyi
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. - William Arthur Ward
Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men. - Katha Pollitt
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable - Gary L. Francione
You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate. - Debasish Mridha
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union - Rollo May