Participation Quotes

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

Aberjhani

People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus!

Israelmore Ayivor

Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

H.G.Wells