Top 1200 Political Participation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.

Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

I think I've yet to do the big heave is because New York editors tend to think D.C. guys like me want to do political stories. And I hate politics for its own sake. Politics are so... I don't know, political. Which is an odd thing for a guy to say, I suppose, who has worked at a political magazine for fourteen years.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.

There's a lot of audience participation in 'Rock of Ages' and 'Rocky Horror.'

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

A film becomes hit with the equal participation of every actors and crew members.

Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

God helped me crown my football career with a participation in the World Cup.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

I believe that when it comes to the creation of Sankalp Patra, India in its history has never seen such participation of people.

There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's not about Black Death. It's not about black men. It is a political move. It's a communist political move.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters ever since. By turning voters into interest groups, it stopped establishment leaders from articulating a national narrative. It opened the way for Movement Conservatives to create today's political crisis.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

If you are teaching your child to be content with a participation award, then you already failed at life.

Participation in international events has given me a lot of experience.

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.