Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
Interpretation
Politics affects everyone, regardless of personal interest in it.
This quote by Pericles emphasizes the idea that individual apathy toward politics does not exempt one from its consequences. It serves as a reminder that political decisions and actions impact all aspects of society, and disengagement from political matters can lead to unfavorable outcomes for those who choose to ignore them.
In practice
During a community meeting about local policies.
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.
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