We do not regard the man who takes no interest in politics as one who minds his own business; we regard him as a useless character.

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

We do not regard the man who takes no interest in politics as one who minds his own business; we regard him as a useless character.

-- Pericles

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.

-- Pericles

The future cannot be reappropriated.

-- Jacques Derrida

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

-- Hannah Arendt

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

-- Nikita Khrushchev