Busybodies Quote by Samuel Gompers Download Open image “Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.” — Samuel Gompers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Busybodies Dangerous Dependence Experiments Inspirational Ought People
People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention. — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like… — Renato Dulbecco Copy Share Image
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves. — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers 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, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin 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 happens to… — Frances Parkinson Keyes 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
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making… — Lyndon LaRouche 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 today's busybody… — 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 and officious… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into… — Anonymous 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 wasted. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image