Political Apathy Quotes

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

Neither the rich nor the poor have great interest in government. The rich can afford their own security … in their gated communities and their own information networks. The poor are usually so pushed against the wall that they do not have time for the mechanics of the government. If you lose the middle class, you lose democratic government.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know that what you hear in Congress is 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The age of virtuous politics is past.

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

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

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

Politicians have no politics.