"Once you don't vote your ideals ......" - Quote by Ralph Nader
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
More by Ralph Nader
“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.”
More on Voting
“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.”
“The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.”
“I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.”
More on Ideals
“A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.”
“All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.”
“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”