Cillian Murphy Quotes

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

My message to you is very clear: Wake up, America!

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.