man of sense will not take part in politics either∗; he knows the kinds of personal connections that politics involves. So what’s to keep us from living as if we were as unsocial as flies?

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business.

Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.

University politics,” declared Oop, “doesn’t care about liberal traditions or any other kind of traditions.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain.