Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

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.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!