(952 quotes found)
“We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.”
Elaine Cumming
“Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.”
Corazon Aquino
“I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister was my bitch. We had to walk down Sunset Boulevard because we couldn't get a ride to the party, and everyone was sticking their heads out of their cars and yelling at us. It was great.”
Christina Applegate
“The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.”
Judith Butler
“The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special by participating in it.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.”
Mark Rothko
“In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.”
Clive James
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
