Meddling Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Humor, Government, People

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

  Jon Stewart

  Government, Desert, Should

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• I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Thinking, Animal, Rights

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• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Government, America, President

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• The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.

  Drew Carey

  Christian, Country, Fun

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• I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Lasts, Neighbor

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.88, Penguin

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
  Our meddling intellect
  Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
  We murder to dissect.
  Enough of Science and of Art;
  Close up these barren leaves;
  Come forth, and bring with you a heart
  That watches and receives.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Art

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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• Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Men, Waiting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.243, St. Martin's Griffin

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• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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• In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Anxiety

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Country, Air, Long Ago

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• Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

  William Penn

  Neutrality, Faults, Helping

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• As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Anarchy, Tradition, Individual

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Knowing, Shaving

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• ... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

  Iris Murdoch

  Spiritual, People, Perfect

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.369, Penguin

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• Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

  John Selden

  Plot, Affair, States

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.167

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• We have important things to talk to the Russians about, despite their meddling in our elections. I hope they're talking about a way to eventually end this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria, end that war. The Russians have more leverage than we do. I hope they're talking about the fact that, if Kim Jong-un's long-range missiles can reach Alaska one day, they can also reach Vladivostok.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Important, One Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Thinking, May

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.34, Bantam

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• A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Unattractive

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.453

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• O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Brother, Art, Kings

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• Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

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• Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Simple, Hands

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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