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Letter "P" » participation
«Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.»
Author: Daniel P. Moynihan
(Politician)
| About:
Sharing
| Keywords:
device, induce, in a way, nonpublic, officials, participation, whereby
«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.»
Author: Elaine Cumming
| Keywords:
bedridden, chronically, collective, destitute, devotion, fullness, individualism, participation, prisoner, reserve, The Prisoner
«As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
| About:
Beauty,
God
| Keywords:
As god, beams, brightness, conformity, delights, derivation, derivations, holiness, jewel, participation
«I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.»
Author: Yousuf Karsh
(Journalist, Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
mutual, participation, photograph, photographer, sitter, sitters, spirits, take away, the photographer, to each other
«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.»
Author: Corazon Aquino
| About:
Freedom,
Government,
Politics,
Press
| Keywords:
Freedom of expression, freedom of the press, guarantees, in particular, participation, the press
«Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
participation, situations, wrest, wrested
«DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
characteristics, conspicuously, dances, daughter, in common, leap, participation, preferably, requiring, sexes, The Sound, tittering, vicious, warmly
«The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bosom, decency, oppressed, opulent, participation, persecuted, privileges, respectable, Rights and privileges
«To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Fulfilment
| Keywords:
appreciation, Challenges, fascinating, participation, processes, These Days, widen
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