Busybodies Quotes - Page 2

• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Dangerous, Experiments

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

  Carolyn Wells

  Advice, Devil, May

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• 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 rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hurt, Children, People

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• The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

  Judith Martin

  Predictions, Conversation

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• Toda persona, ya sea griega o bárbara, que se está formando para la sabiduría, que lleva una vida intachable e irreprochable, elige no cometer injusticias ni devolverlas a los demás, sino evitar la compañía de los entrometidos y despreciar los lugares donde pasan el tiempo: tribunales, consejos, plazas de mercado, asambleas; en resumen, todo tipo de reunión o encuentro de gente irreflexiva. ... Personas como éstas, que encuentran su alegría en la virtud, celebran un festival durante toda su vida.

  Pierre Hadot

  Largo, Gente, Alegría

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson", por Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, París: Albin Michel, traducido por Michael Chase, (p. 264), 2001.

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• The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Weather, Earth

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Sound, Lions, Innocent

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• It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Thinking, People, Dangerous

  Lenora Mattingly Weber (1950). “Leave it to Beany!”

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• Zeus odia a los entrometidos y a los que hacen demasiado.

  Eurípides

  Odio, Demasiado, Acción

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• I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

  Anne Ellis

  Fall, Affair, Neighbor

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press

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• A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Hazards, Eavesdropping

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• Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Nuisance, Sitting, Nests

  "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant". Chicago Tribune, December 2, 1988.

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• 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

  Wise, Advice, Easy

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.87

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• The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

  Lance Morrow

  America, Police, Hammers

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• Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Want, Limits

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• The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Decision, Fatal Attraction

  Thomas Sowell (2013). "Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays", p.225, Hoover Press.

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• De todas las tiranías, una tiranía ejercida sinceramente por el bien de sus víctimas puede ser la más opresiva.

  C. S. Lewis

  Paz, Guerra, Gobierno

  C. S. Lewis (2003). "Una mente despierta: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis", p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

  Gao Xingjian

  Literature, Moral, Ethical

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• Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody -- should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Thinking, Should

  "The Latest Liberal Crusade" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 10, 2005.

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Gente

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.540, Routledge

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• There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Neglect, Concern

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.7, e-artnow

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• La "equidad" es uno de los grandes mantras de la izquierda. Como cada cual tiene su propia definición de lo justo, esa palabra es un cheque en blanco para la expansión del poder gubernamental. Lo que la equidad significa en la práctica es que terceras partes -los entrometidos- pueden impedir que los demás se acomoden mutuamente.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Mean, Equality

  Thomas Sowell (2013). "Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays", p.225, Hoover Press.

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• Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Juego, Personas, Roles

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). "Manual de economía política", Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Jane tenía esa alegre disposición a la que le gustaría imaginar que todo el mundo desea realmente el bienestar de su prójimo y lucha, aunque a veces de forma bastante desastrosa, por ayudarle a conseguirlo.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• Pero cuando no hay riesgo, no hay libertad. Es así como, en una sociedad industrial, la plétora de leyes creadas para nuestra seguridad personal convierten la tierra en una guardería, y los policías contratados para protegernos se convierten en entrometidos al servicio de sus propios intereses.

  Alan Watts

  Tomado, Ley, Tierra

  Alan Watts (2010). "Tao: el camino del curso del agua", p.43, Souvenir Press

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