Nonintervention Quotes

“The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Oeuvres complètes: 8

“The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others