Busybodies Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using… — John Waters
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C.S. Lewis
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies.… — Donald J. Boudreaux
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances… — Lyndon LaRouche
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. — George Takei
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act… — Thomas Sowell
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work,… — Sonny Perdue
Busy people are never busybodies. — Ethel Mumford
Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. — Martin O'Malley
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a… — Marcus Aurelius
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for… — Thomas Sowell
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend… — Criss Jami
A busybody's work is never done. — A. N. Wilson
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under… — C.S. Lewis
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we… — Bertrand Russell
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' â€”That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my… — Emile M. Cioran
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers… — Samuel Gompers
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them… — Lance Morrow

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