Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or power:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.”
—Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)