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Quotes About Interference

Americans were outraged by Russia's interference in our presidential election, but a wider threat is Russia's doctrine of hybrid warfare, which includes cybersabotage of critical American infrastructure from nuclear plants to electrical grids.
~ Jeanne Shaheen
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.
~ Scott Pruitt
Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.
~ Peter Morgan
I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
For years, America has helped protect against terrorist attacks by telling Americans, 'If you see something, say something.' The same should go for protecting our elections against foreign interference.
~ Eric Swalwell
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
~ Robert Mugabe
If their solution breaks down because of external interference in the autistic processes, they experience considerable anxiety and their aggression is mobilized to defend their system. This reaction substantiates the importance of the fantasy process in psychosis, a process which acts to reduce anxiety and maintain the psychological equilibrium (homeostasis). An
~ Robert W. Firestone
When a movie or TV show is too heavily larded with these moments, you may be looking at the result of interference from producers and executives. They've trained themselves to see stories as connective tissues fusing together various categories of gratification. This is why so many would-be blockbusters play more like hodge-podges of disparate stimuli than satisfyingly integrated narratives.
~ Robin D. Laws
I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life." Ten years ago, I could not have understood the pain in his voice. I would only have seen him as interfering and calculating. Only now, with a son of my own intent on ignoring every bit of advice I'd ever given him, could I recognize what it had cost him to let me go my own way and make my own choices. He
~ Robin Hobb
Pero cuando usted trata de solucionarle sus problemas, él queda liberado de su propia responsabilidad por su propia vida. Entonces usted queda a cargo del bienestar de él, y cuando sus esfuerzos fallan, él la culpará a usted.
~ Robin Norwood
Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Lester Morrow could quite possibly have enough pull with the army to foil Howell's own attempts at promotion.
~ Rosanne Bittner
On such an approach, Mill argues, anyone could demand as a 'social right' that nobody act in any way falling short of her own standards of perfection. He sees this as a 'monstrous' principle with the potential to justify virtually any interference with individual liberty – ultimately leaving us no zone of freedom beyond, perhaps, 'that of holding opinions in secret, without ever disclosing them' (Mill [1859] 1974: 158).
~ Russell Blackford
It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it.
~ Frederick Lenz
As soon as he is regarded as a possession for which one has a particular goal, as soon as one exerts control over him, his natural growth will be violently interrupted.
~ Alice Miller
Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage.
~ Alice Walker
There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Abstemio, s. Persona de carácter débil, que cede a la tentación de negarse un placer. Abstemio total es el que se abstiene de todo, menos de la abstención; en especial, se abstiene de no meterse en los asuntos ajenos.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
~ Pope Francis
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
~ Lord Melbourne
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
~ Carl Van Vechten
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
~ Anonymous