“What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau, book Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but, as I love literature, and, to some extent, the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

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