Ken Livingstone Quotes

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If voting could change anything, they would have made it illegal.

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

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

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.

I shall not vote because I do not aspire to advise my sovereign on the choice of her servants.

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

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

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

If the voters vote for the same old thing, they are going to get the same old thing. If they want change, they are going to have to vote for change.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

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

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

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

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

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.