Agree. There's a direct line from Robert A Heinlein:

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

to the anonymous scholar who first said, probably as a joke:

"If violence didn't work you didn't use enough".

Whatever you think of voting and democracy, the alternatives are far more unpleasant. Vote every time, without fail.