Intrusion Quotes

Intrusion Quotes by Joost Meerloo, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Haggai, Phyllis McGinley, Edward Snowden, Nelson A. Miles and many others.

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don’t-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Worry is an intrusion into God’s providence.
You don’t need to justify your rights as a citizen – that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, “I don’t need them in this context” or “I can’t understand this,” they are no longer rights.
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of ‘protecting women from outside intrusion’ is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.
Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.
Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She’s come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.
To enter the maintsteam market is an act of aggression. The companies who have already established relationships with your target customer will resent your intrusion and do everything they can to shut you out.
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man‘s house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
John Eric Erichsen
I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Today, we’re encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art – when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
I feel the best way to ensure Americans’ freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against “freedom of print,” it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
You don’t need a dead father to explain a character‘s sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is – authorial intrusion.
I really do like the independent way of working. You don’t get much studio intrusion compared to when you’re working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.
…Say somebody shot somebody….We…are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly…(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people turn on the faucet? …I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially promulgated (pro fluoridation).
John Flaherty
All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they’ve seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life.
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.
Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.
The erosion of a nation’s concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
You can’t hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.
Darryl White
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.
Elizabeth Van Lew
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don’t like intrusion.
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
If the distinction provided by Jesus‘ words: Give unto god, what is god’s, and unto Caesar what is Caesar’s! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual’s body under stringently limited conditions.
Under the specious pretext of effecting ‘the happiness of the whole community,’ nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
If you fall in love with someone, it doesn’t matter who they are. I’ve had lots of girlfriends who weren’t in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you’ve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
If ‘ecstasymeant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only ‘with the greatest reluctance’.
Raymond P. Shafer
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion‘s intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
The library is every child‘s lighthouse. It is every person’s
sanctuary. It is every town and county‘s fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
We’ve been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.
There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You’d fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
I’m very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn’t want people to lump me in with those people who’d do anything to be famous. I didn’t like the wordcelebrity.’ I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.
Yeah, that’s a cool name, but it’s a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people‘s love lives.
Sooner or later,
wittingly or unwittingly,
we must pay
for every intrusion
on the natural environment.
At root, a pearl is a ‘disturbance‘ a beauty caused by something that isn’t supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. … The pearl’s beauty is made as a result of insult.
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil‘s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.