"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all."
— Pericles

January 1, 1970

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Pericles commenting the participation of Athenian citizens in politics, as quoted in Models of Democracy (2006) by David Held, Stanford University Press, p. 14. Book II, chapter 40.