Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

One man shall have one vote.

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet.

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

The Ballot or the Bullet

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

The ballot has failed us, but the bullet has not.

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

Votes are something that you earn.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

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.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.