Quotes About Interference

God save us from people who think they know what's best for us.

the surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

It then became intolerable that while I was not in any way interested in the world's affairs the world should have decided to interfere so spectacularly in mine. […] I am tired of offering my services as a smokescreen when there is a good chance of my being dismembered in the process and when I don't approve of what's being screened anyhow.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

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 do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.

Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

I regard love as one of the most important things in human life, and I regard any system as bad which interferes unnecessarily with its free development.

Love of independence is, in most cases, not an abstract dislike of external interference, but aversion from some one form of control which the government thinks desirable—prohibition, conscription, religious conformity, or what not. Sometimes such sentiments can be gradually overcome by propaganda and education, which can indefinitely weaken the desire for personal independence.

Not forgiving interferes with the effectiveness of your prayer life (Mark 11:25).

It was a circumambulation of such precise, ritualistic grief no one interfered.

Do not interfere with an army that is returning home because a man whose heart is set on returning home will fight to the death against any attempt to bar his way, and is therefore too dangerous an opponent to be tackled.

Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable acceptable. By giving good reasons for what would otherwise distress us, we make sense out of confusing and even frightening situations.

Because his mother never met a boundary she didn't want to cross.

Burgerparticipatie was een ander woord voor de bemoeienis van mensen die geen idee hadden waar het over ging en veel gedoe veroorzaakten, om er uiteindelijk over te zeuren dat alles zo lang duurde.

Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.

Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.

As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.