Quote #10
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Pericles
- Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at …
- Make up your mind that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
- If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
- Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
- Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
- Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
- Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
- What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.