Chris Hedges Quotes

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

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.

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

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.

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

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

Where a government has come to power through some sort of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not been exhausted.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

Serving in the U.S. Congress is about much more than voting on bills. It is about taking on the corporate bullies that taint our democratic process and pushing back when the system is broken.

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

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.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter what you do, who you elect, how wonderful your article is, how eloquently you speak on CNN, none of it will make a difference. Ultimately, the only choice is a revolution that pulls off a soft regime change.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

We do have some people that have never voted before.

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.