“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”– Plato Related Quotes “Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”– Charles de Gaulle “This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”– Richard Powers “Politics is human beings it’s addition rather than subtraction.”– Donald Rumsfeld