Quotes About Non-interference

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?

One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I am not someone who interferes in the love life of others.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

I respect you when I don't try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.

I don't know what's best for me or you or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or on anyone else. I don't want to change you or improve you or convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

The law of non-interference with nature. — The law of non-interference with nature is a basic principle of Taoism [stating] that one should be in harmony with, not rebellion against, the fundamental laws of the universe. Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don't interfere. Remember never to assert your self against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but to control it by swinging with it.

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Heaven is here when Time is not. To live without Time means to live without friction, with no wear and tear. That is the space of non-engagement, non-interference.

Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.

You must learn to cultivate your own garden and keep your nose out of everybody else's. If they want to grow rutabagas in it, if they want to use a different kind of fertilizer than you do, if they want to have weeds in it, that's really none of your business. The important thing is that yours is the way you want it to be.

The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Other people's behavior is none of my business.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.