Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

Nobody really believes any more that government delivers.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

Politics is a waste of time.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Cynicism, disgust and apathy are really intelligent responses to the state of American politics.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

[Describing "political alienation:" The feeling that politics is a racket for a few insiders and is meaningless to the rest of the people.

I'm not disillusioned with Clinton. I never had any illusions.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.