Meddling Quotes

• Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Anger, Sister In Law

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Men, People

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

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Men

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

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• It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ignorant, Path

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

  Dane Cook

  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

  Mason Cooley

  Critical Spirit, Knows, Spirit

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• Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Folly, Thankless

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.747, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Acting, Likes, Affair

  John Stuart Mill (1869). “On Liberty”, p.187

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• Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Death, Sister In Law, Dying

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Would Be, Favors

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

  Joseph Addison

  World, Mankind, Spectators

  1711 In The Spectator, no.1,1Mar.

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• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

  George Washington

  War, Simple, Justice

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Mind, Snooping

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

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Caring

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• Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

  Karl Marx

  Cracks, Authority, Crisis

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• We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Government, Want, Lives Of Others

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• Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Differences, Government

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

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• You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

  Anais Nin

  Sister In Law, Giving, Negativity

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