“If Voting Could Actually Change Anything” – Noam Chomsky

„If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.“

Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky’s pointed quote about voting, power, and political change invites critical reflection on democracy.
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Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and political activist, renowned for his work in linguistic theory and critical social analysis.

A pointed political aphorism about elections, power, and social change that invites critical reflection.


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Born in 1928, Noam Chomsky is a prominent linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, and political activist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern linguistics and revolutionized the field with his theory of generative grammar. Additionally, Chomsky is known for his critical analyses of politics and mass media.

Neil Postman quote about voting, polling, political impotence, and the news mediaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." Neil Postman
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