Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Elections belong to the people. It is 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.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Your vote is your voice.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

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

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

When voter get a chance to vote, they vote their hopes rather than their fears.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.