What is good short Voting quote?

"Every election is determined by the people who show up." - Larry J. Sabato

55 Voting Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Voting quote?

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " - Isaac Asimov

Q: What are some Voting quotes?

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston S. Churchill "If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote." - David Foster Wallace "I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win." - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Q: What are some short Voting quotes?

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters." - Abraham Lincoln "Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them." - Terry Pratchett "Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity." - Naomi Klein

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure Quotes Republican Quotes Voting Quotes

The fundamental question pertaining to voting ethics which Christians must ask at this presidential election is this: "What are the binding principles established by God in the Bible for selecting a civil magistrate?" All other questions are secondary or irrelevant. Once this standard is determined it is our duty to wisely apply the principles and precepts to our American context and to obey. All attempts by Christians to obfuscate our duty to repair to "the standard" by sprinkling the debate with the theology of pragmatics and partisan politics is a loss to the Church because it means that we are more concerned with manipulating a political process then simply obeying the sovereign God

Voting Quotes

I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

Faith Quotes / Optimism Quotes Pebbles Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

Campaigning Quotes Democracy Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

Remember: “For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost.” This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn’t count. · If Harriett Woods hadn’t been defeated by less than 2 percent of the votes in Missouri, Danforth wouldn’t have been a U.S. senator. · If Danforth hadn’t been senator, Clarence Thomas wouldn’t have gone with him to Washington as a staff member. · If Thomas hadn’t been visible in Washington as a rare African American who opposed his community’s majority views, he wouldn’t have been appointed by the first President Bush to head—and to disempower—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and then to sit on the D.C. Court of Appeals. · If Thomas hadn’t been given such credentials, he couldn’t have been nominated by the same President Bush to succeed the great civil rights advocate Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. · If Thomas hadn’t been on the Supreme Court, he couldn’t have supplied the one-vote margin that halted the Florida court-ordered recount. · If there had been a recount, Al Gore, not George W. Bush, would have been president—as was concluded by a postelection examination of all uncounted ballots commissioned by twelve major news organizations. · If George W. Bush had not been president, the United States would have been less likely to lose the world’s sympathy after 9/11 by launching the longest war in U.S. history, with more bombs dropped on Afghanistan during fourteen years than in all of World War II, plus billions in tax dollars given to twenty thousand private contractors, and thousands killed and wounded on both sides. · If Al Gore, not George W. Bush, had been president, global warming would have been taken seriously. Also, the United States would not have falsified evidence to justify invading oil-rich Iraq, thus starting an eight-year war, and, together with Afghanistan, convincing some in Islamic countries that the United States is waging war against Islam. · Without George W. Bush, there would not be the biggest transfer of wealth into private hands in the history of this nation; a pay ratio in which the average CEO earns 475 times more than the average worker (in Canada, it’s 20 times); an executive order giving an estimated $40 billion in tax dollars to Catholic, evangelical, and other religious groups, without congressional approval, often with the appearance of turning churches into a vote delivery system. · Without Clarence Thomas to supply the one-vote majority, the Supreme Court might not have ruled that corporations are people, with a right to unlimited political spending in order to continue all the above…. Well, you get the idea. The list goes on. We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the most powerful. ......In truth, we don’t know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might. As my mother would say, “Democracy is a seed that can only be planted where you are.

Everything matters Quotes My Life on the Road Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Endorsement Quotes Inspiration Quotes Kennedy Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now Quotes Politics Quotes Polls Quotes Priorities Quotes Voting Quotes

To Trazada's surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. 'Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. They are stupid and superstitious. Why, most of them think that television is witchcraft and that because they are allowed to vote they have control over the government. And they know it is impossible for a woman to make such a thing. They would never believe you.'("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")

Ignorance Quotes / Cautionary Tales Quotes Government Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.

Government propaganda Quotes Lies the Government Told You: Myth Quotes Power Quotes and Deception in American History Quotes Voting Quotes

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

Politicians Quotes Terminal Quotes Vote Quotes Voting Quotes

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Democracy Quotes Voting Quotes

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect new officers, and then hold a collective vote to decide what to do next. In a case like this, even if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest.

Ancient greece Quotes Elections Quotes Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Quotes Military Quotes Power Quotes Voting Quotes

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one would want to do is to hold a vote: a public contest which someone will be seen to lose. Voting would be the most likely means to guarantee humiliations, resentments, hatreds, in the end, the destruction of communities. What is seen as an elaborate and difficult process of finding consensus is, in fact, a long process of making sure no one walks away feeling that their views have been totally ignored.

Consensus Quotes Democracy Quotes Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Quotes Voting Quotes

Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I’d have cast a brick.

The Shockwave Rider Quotes Vote Quotes Voting Quotes

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Corruption Quotes Government Quotes Suffrage Quotes Texas Politics Today Quotes 2011-2012 Edition Quotes Voting Quotes

Señor Norman Muller, debo informarle, en nombre del presidente de los Estados Unidos, de que le han escogido para representar al electorado norteamericano el martes 4 de noviembre de 2008.

Votación Quotes Voting Quotes

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Democracy Quotes Elite Quotes Elitism Quotes Elitist Quotes Voter Quotes Voting Quotes

A man without a vote is a man without protection.

Lbj Quotes Voting Quotes

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Injustice Quotes Lbj Quotes Voting Quotes Voting rights act Quotes

This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

America Quotes Bitter Blood Quotes Morganville vampires Quotes Politics Quotes Shane collins Quotes Voting Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Democracy Quotes Elite Quotes Elitism Quotes Elitist Quotes Meritocracy Quotes Peasant Quotes

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Democracy Quotes Elections Quotes Political rights Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground night-club filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pitbulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch "Republican Party Reservation". They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand new sexual organs you did not even know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That's voting. You're welcome.

Humor Quotes Transmetropolitan Quotes Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard Quotes Voting Quotes

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.

America Quotes One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Civil disobedience Quotes Injustice Quotes Voting Quotes

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Quotes Right to vote Quotes Voting Quotes

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to useful working technologies. But in economics and the other social studies, nutty ideas may hang around for centuries. Today, leading presidential candidates and tens of millions of voters in the USA embrace ideas that might have been drawn from a 17th-century book on the theory and practice of mercantilism, and multitudes of politicians and ordinary people espouse notions that Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and others exploded more than two centuries ago. In these realms, nearly everyone simply believes whatever he feels good about believing.

Evil Quotes Freedom Quotes / Anarcho capitalism Quotes Anarchy Quotes Ancap Quotes Austrian school of economics Quotes Coercion Quotes Collectivism Quotes

Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people’s natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they — the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate — are themselves the government.

Freedom Quotes / Anarcho capitalism Quotes Anarchy Quotes Ancap Quotes Coercion Quotes Collectivism Quotes Communism Quotes

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.

Evil Quotes Freedom Quotes Knowledge Quotes Philosophy Quotes Truth Quotes / Anarcho capitalism Quotes Anarchy Quotes Ancap Quotes Coercion Quotes Collectivism Quotes Gang Quotes

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Humor Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Freedom Quotes / Anarchy Quotes Democracy Quotes Elections Quotes Government Quotes Idiocracy Quotes Laissez faire Quotes

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Democracy Quotes Elite Quotes Elitism Quotes Elitist Quotes Meritocracy Quotes Politics Quotes

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws)

Homesteading Quotes These Happy Golden Years Quotes Voting Quotes Women s rights Quotes

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura regarding the homestead laws)

Homesteading Quotes Voting Quotes Women s rights Quotes

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

Arkansas Quotes Democracy Quotes Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Quotes Salt lake city Quotes Utah Quotes Voting Quotes

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Elections Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Quotes Politics Quotes Voting Quotes

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Politics Quotes Up Quotes Simba! Quotes Voting Quotes

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Freedom Quotes Responsibility Quotes / Democracy Quotes Democracy fascism Quotes Democracy freedom Quotes Democracy voting Quotes Elections Quotes Free speech Quotes

Our way was to share a fire until it burned down, ayi? To speak to each other until every person was satisfied. Younger men listened to older men. Now the Beelezi tell us the vote of a young, careless man counts the same as the vote of an elder.' In the hazy heat Tata Ndu paused to take off his hat, turn it carefully in his hands, then replace it above the high dome of his forehead. No one breathed. 'White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas necessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. A bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.

Life Quotes The Poisonwood Bible Quotes Voting Quotes

The political merchandisers appeal only to the weaknesses of voters, never to their potential strength. They make no attempt to educate the masses into becoming fit for self-government; they are content merely to manipulate and exploit them. For this purpose all the resources of psychology and the social sciences are mobilized and set to work. Carefully selected samples of the electorate are given "interviews in depth." These interviews in depth reveal the unconscious fears and wishes most prevalent in a given society at the time of an election. Phrases and images aimed at allaying or, if necessary, enhancing these fears, at satisfying these wishes, at least symbolically, are then chosen by the experts, tried out on readers and audiences, changed or improved in the light of the information thus obtained. After which the political campaign is ready for the mass communicators. All that is now needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look "sincere." Under the new dispensation, political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate and the way he is projected by the advertising experts are the things that really matter. In one way or another, as vigorous he-man or kindly father, the candidate must be glamorous. He must also be an entertainer who never bores his audience. Inured to television and radio, that audience is accustomed to being distracted and does not like to be asked to concentrate or make a prolonged intellectual effort. All speeches by the entertainer-candidate must therefore be short and snappy. The great issues of the day must be dealt with in five minutes at the most -- and preferably (since the audience will be eager to pass on to something a little livelier than inflation or the H-bomb) in sixty seconds flat. The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to over-simplify complex issues. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. The methods now being used to merchandise the political candidate as though he were a deodorant positively guarantee the electorate against ever hearing the truth about anything.

Candidate Quotes Vote Quotes Voting Quotes

A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

Education Quotes Knowledge Quotes / Farmer Quotes Farming Quotes Folks Quotes This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens Quotes Healthier People Quotes and a Better World Quotes

They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

Chomsky Quotes Corporatocracy Quotes Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda Quotes Voting Quotes

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

War Quotes / America Quotes Democracy Quotes Democrats Quotes Economics Quotes Government Quotes Politics Quotes

If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote.

Truth Quotes / Obscenity Quotes The Things They Carried Quotes Voting Quotes

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Freedom Quotes / Campaign Quotes Coercion Quotes Collectivism Quotes Communism Quotes Democracy Quotes Government Quotes

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

America Quotes Election Quotes Presidency Quotes President Quotes Us Quotes Usa Quotes

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

Government Quotes Humor Quotes Politics Quotes Sarcasm Quotes The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Quotes Trickery Quotes

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 Quotes Reader's Edition Quotes Conscience Quotes Preachers Quotes Voting Quotes

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Freedom Quotes Responsibility Quotes / Democracy Quotes Democracy fascism Quotes Democracy freedom Quotes Democracy voting Quotes Democrats Quotes Elections Quotes

55 Voting Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters - Quotes.Pub