Voting Apathy Quotes

I don't vote.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

At least when I was young, in high school: "Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing." You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, "Oh heck, let me vote." And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

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.

You're proving you're a dope who has been duped if you do vote. Hardly a word of truth seems to come from either Presidential candidate, and they want me to confirm their opinion of me as an idiot by helping either of them get elected.

More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.

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

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.

You know what? I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff. Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, ‘cause I’d be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, ya know?

I have never voted in any election - I usually have more important things to do, especially since I've had kids.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.