Helen Keller Quotes

Elections are not really about political choices. The choice is usually between tweedle-de-dum and tweedle-de-dummer.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government

Elections, like economic competition, produce winners, but these are not necessarily the best candidates, morally speaking.

Would it not be easier...for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

The king, in possession of the throne, was the sole representative of sovereignty, the sole representative of power. Not so in a Republic … Here we have no sole representative of power. The ballot box is the instrumentality through which the sovereign power is exercised.

American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whatever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. The same thing is not true of Germany

Liberal democracies have their own means of holding leaders accountable. They are called elections.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Elections are separated from the process of endowing the state with power; they mount to an expensive ritual

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

Democracy is a series of choices.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.