Quote by J. W. von Goethe

“The world of politics is utterly foreign to me: it is tedious to me to hear of marches and revolutions, of debates and state measures. I can never read a newspaper without boredom: all this to us is something so transitory, so temporary, and also so utterly, essentially alien. There are other fields in which I understand myself to be the king; so why should I set out unsummoned, like a ten-penny moralist, to interfere in affairs with which providence has charged those administrations which are chosen to bear such heavy burdens? Comment by a spluttering old colonel: 'I don't understand people who laugh when countries are shedding their blood and who don't see what's happening in front of them ... But perhaps genius us entitled to do that.”

Quote by J. W. von Goethe