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Quotes About Interference

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
~ Paul Valery
The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
~ Alexander Lebedev
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
~ Margery Allingham
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
~ Eric Berne
The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by the Sages, adding maliciously that nothing so sharpened the wits as a passion somewhat out of the common. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")
~ William Beckford
The United States is not concerned with this thing called 'democracy', no matter how many times every American president uses the word each time he opens his mouth. As noted in the Introduction, since 1945 the US has attempted to overthrow more than fifty governments, most of which were democratically elected, and grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least thirty countries.
~ William Blum
They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In
~ William Graham Sumner
The danger of minding other people's business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his own business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another's affairs. The
~ William Graham Sumner
The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference generated within the zone jams the signals.
~ David Hatcher Childress
The first episode of the story was remade between the third and the fourth as there was electronic interference on the tape of the original recording. (The episode was indeed remade, but the real reason was that talkback – i.e. the sound of instructions relayed to the studio floor from the control gallery – was picked up and clearly audible on the soundtrack of the original recording.)
~ David J. Howe
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
~ Rex Stout
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
~ Steven Erikson
The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
~ James Mill
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
~ Ludwig von Mises
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
~ Milton Friedman
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.
~ George Soros
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.
~ Thomas Sowell