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.

The future cannot be reappropriated.

-- Jacques Derrida

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

-- Hannah Arendt

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

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

-- Nikita Khrushchev