Pericles

“//Here [Athens] each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own business are extremely well-informed on general politics - we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his business; we say that he has no business here at all.//” Thucydides’ account of a speech by Pericles at the height of Athenian democracy