Absence Quote by John Ralston Saul

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told…

— Jean-Marc Barr

Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude…

— Marsha Petrie Sue

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own…

— Huangbo Xiyun

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…

— Clay Shirky

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

— Tony Blair

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

— Basil Hume

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

— Barack Obama

“So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed - all the outward manifestations of neglect of our…

— Dalai Lama