Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual. There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to them will finally set him free. Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
'What is this?'he asked, interrupting, 'a serial stawry? Getting no answer he called my name, and when Force had paused he came near. 'In the sixth chapter and fifth verse of Proverbs,'said he, 'it is written:
"Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler." Deliver thyself, Brower. I did so, ducking under Force's arm and hastening to my chamber. 'Ye have a brawling, busy tongue, man,'I heard McClingan saying. 'By the Lord! ye should know a dull tongue is sharper than a serpent's tooth. 'You are a meddlesome fellow,'said Force.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
There is work to be done among those unhappy men that may be my purgation. The authorities shall hear me yet--though inquiry was stifled at Port Arthur. By the way, a Pharaoh had arisen who knows not Joseph. It is evident that the meddlesome parson, who complained of men being flogged to death, is forgotten, as the men are! How many ghosts must haunt the dismal loneliness of that prison shore! Poor Burgess is gone the way of all flesh. I wonder if his spirit revisits the scenes of its violences? I have written "poor" Burgess.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
They rode home together, and together they spent the hot afternoon in the cool depths of the grove. By sundown Good Indian was ready to call himself a fool and Peppajee Jim a meddlesome, visionary old idiot. Steal the Peaceful Hart ranch? The more he thought of it, the more ridiculous the thing seemed.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
"I lied to you, Mr. Hart," she confessed, engagingly. "I haven't a thing for you except a lot of questions, and I simply must ask them or die. I'm not just curious, you know. I'm horribly anxious. Won't you take the seat of honor, please? The ranch won't run off if you aren't there for a few minutes after you had expected to be. I've been waiting to have a little talk with you, and I simply couldn't let the opportunity go by." She talked fast, but she was thinking faster, and wondering if this calm, white-bearded old man thought her a meddlesome fool.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
"Do not think the vrouw meddlesome, mynheer," said Raff. "She has been sore touched of late about a lad whose folks have gone away--none knows where--and I had a message for them from the young gentleman."英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》