Interests Quote by Pericles

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say…

— Pericles

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

— Mohammad Hamid Ansari

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has…

— Anonymous

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien…

— Anton Chekhov

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

— Pythagoras

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

— Calvin Coolidge

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man

— W R Inge

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

— Nathanael Emmons

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by…

— Charles Babbage

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

— Aristotle

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow