perikles

• perikles'in peloponnesian savaşı'nın ilk yılında ölen atina'lılar için düzenlenen toplu cenaze töreni sırasında atina halkına seslenişinden bir alıntı (kaynak: thoukydides - peloponnesian savaşı):
  
  here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own business are extremely well-informed on general politics--this is a peculiarity of ours: 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.