Amartya Sen Quotes

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

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

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

Programs have to be developed by the people in the community.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

We have always a roll to play in any community, and we have to do it - it's being part of a society.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.