#meddle

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #humans #meddlers

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#editor #good #meddle #much #talking

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. ↗

— Marie de France

#all things #because #dare #high #i

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his. ↗

— Daniel Morgan

#anything #ass #believe #having #his

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. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#going #governments #internal #life #meddle

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#estate #great #grown #i #i am

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#i #like #meddle #private

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#anger #meddle #quick #subtle #wizards

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#countries #done #in the past #interests #meddle

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#course #foreign #foreign affairs #his #humanitarian