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
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not… — Marcus Aurelius 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
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. — Vilfredo Pareto 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
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers 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
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
