Guy Debord Quotes

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.

Stay engaged; be part of the process.

I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.

Life is not a spectator sport.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

Be not solitary, be not idle

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

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

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

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

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.