Participating Quotes
166 quotes by 147 authors
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling…
— Max Weber
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The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in…
— Tiger Woods
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I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
— Howard Rheingold
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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
— Joel Salatin
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Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
— Michel Faber
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The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your…
— Azar Nafisi
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If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
— Paulo Coelho
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Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs…
— Chelsea Handler
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I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
— Jim Butcher
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The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment,…
— Fred Rogers
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Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.†A variant to keep in mind is that if…
— Noam Chomsky
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When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we…
— Paulo Freire
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When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have…
— M. Scott Peck
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In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational,…
— Ken Wilber
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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist…
— Unknown Author
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to…
— Bayard Rustin
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For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over…
— John C. Maxwell
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same…
— BeBe Winans
Who Wrote These Participating Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 166 Participating Quotes, led by these top contributors: