Meddling Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country. — Madeleine Albright
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Thomas Jefferson
The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its… — Osama bin Laden
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… — Oscar Wilde
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… — Plato
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it… — Tommy Hilfiger
The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling. — Mason Cooley
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
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan
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… — Ephrem the Syrian
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. — Plato
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… — Aleister Crowley
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike
What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or… — Mark Waid
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
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… — John Stuart Mill

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