>>Some years ago there was an MP by-election in this constituency. Since a general election was due within a few months there was a lot of national interest on the outcome. I remember seeing one old guy being asked on TV how he was going to vote. He said "Oh - I don't do that - it only encourages them"
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>He was correct
Kind of like the line from
Candide where he observes the hanging of Adm Bing and says that from time to time the British find it necessary to hang an admiral "to encourage the others" <bg>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
