No Interest In Politics Quotes

#1. 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.

Thucydides

#2. In today's world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.

George Habash

#3. I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

Gary Kemp

#4. I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Shilpa Shetty

#5. He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.

E. M. Forster

#6. Politics and self-interest should never stand in the way of finding the truth.

Charles F. Glassman

#7. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

John Dean

#8. No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician's sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what's best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe's

Nathan Allen

#9. I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

Billy Graham

#10. Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Shashi Tharoor

#11. Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man.

Gordon W. Allport

#13. I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

Stephen Colbert

#14. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.

Lloyd Dorfman

#15. So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#17. No one wants you to apologize," Catherine said. "And you know we all have an interest in politics." "I don't," Wes said. "We all have an interest in politics except for Wes,

John Scalzi

#18. That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Angela Merkel

#19. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

#20. Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Ben Stein

#21. I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Robert Harris

#22. It is in your interest', said the dancer Pylades to Augustus, 'that the people should devote their spare time to us entertainers - if they do so, they will not bother about subversive politics.

Michael Grant