It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over. — Lenora Mattingly Weber Copy Share Image
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles,… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his. — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
