“Lotteries are a tax on ignorance.”

“He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.”

“I've won Satan's lottery.”

“Some places have already quit lotteries.”

“Inside this complex labyrinth of roads lives a great part of the city's population, whose existence is ignored by the government, despite it still demands abusive taxes from it. Taxes which are used in magnificent and useless buildings elsewhere in Rio de Janeiro.”

“From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.”

“The first-known public lottery was sponsored by Augustus Caesar to raise funds for repairing the city of Rome; the first public lottery awarding money prizes, the Lotto de Firenze, was established in Florence in 1530.”

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”

“The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.”

“You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!”