Quotes About Intervention

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.

And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?

Would you cure your own child from being schizophrenic if you knew that, if you didn't, he would become a Vincent van Gogh and transform the world of art? (Don't forget: Van Gogh committed suicide.

I believe miracles are to be prayed for, not wished for.

Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science .

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

The garden was not merely a biophilic intervention. It was a social machine.

It used to be that parents didn't have to be home. If a neighbor so I child misbehaving, it was considered appropriate for the neighbor to intervene. The parents would be grateful when they found out, and they would take the word of the neighbor if the child protested his innocence. Unmarried and divorced parents tend not to behave that way. Instead, they tend to try to be the good guy to their children.

When the government intervenes to help, whether in the European welfare state or in America's more diluted version, it not only diminishes our responsibility for the desired outcome, it enfeebles the institutions through which people live satisfying lives.

They're going to shoot him. You have to say something. But how can you? You don't have any lines.

Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

I saw this on TV," June Sibley said. "He'll go in there and get the guy to let the girl go and stay in himself. Oh, my God, he's so brave." "Oh, my ass. He's so stupid," Del Franklin said.

If I hadn't stopped that guy, everybody woulda just let him go. Nobody wants to put their ass on the line for anything, you know?

Back then, government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. The Korean government did not vanquish the market as the communist states did. However, it did not have blind faith in the free market either. While it took markets seriously, the Korean strategy recognized that they often need to be corrected through policy intervention.

algunos mercados parecen libres, solo es porque aceptamos tanto las regulaciones en las que se apoya que se vuelven invisibles.

There is no such thing as free market. All markets are created and have rules and regulations.

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

This is a medical issue, but mostly it's a cultural issue. It's a social issue and an emotional issue and a family dynamic issue and a community issue. Maybe we need to medically intervene so Poppy doesn't grow a beard. Or maybe the world needs to learn to love a person with a beard who goes by "she" and wears a skirt.