Non-Participation Quotes

I don't vote.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch.

I have never been a shooter.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I have no more gifts for politics than a cow has for fox hunting, and I’m not interested in it… personally I’ve never voted and do not intend to.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

I've never voted, no.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

We don’t have a dog in that fight.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

I don't play boxing.

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

Sometimes the only way you can win is to stay out of the game.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."

Yeah, I've never tailgated.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.