Quotes About Intervention

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's home, a whole string of them were teachers. What they had in common was that they worked in successful institutions.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu concluded that Europeans and Christianity posed a threat to the stability of the shogunate and Japan. (In retrospect, when one considers how European military intervention followed the arrival of apparently innocent traders and missionaries in China, India, and many other countries, the threat foreseen by Ieyasu was real.)

The poor performance of the huge Soviet army against the tiny Finnish army had been a big embarrassment to the Soviet Union: about eight Soviet soldiers killed for every Finn killed. The longer a war with Finland went on, the higher was the risk of British and French intervention, which would drag the Soviet Union into war with those countries and invite a British/French attack on Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus.

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.

you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse — there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next. Love is an intervention.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.

Respect childhood, and leave nature to act for a long time before you get involved with acting in its place.

Tutto è bene quando esce dalle mani dell'Autore delle cose, tutto degenera fra le mani dell'uomo.

woman grabbed my shirt and tried to pull me over the chain. "It's all right," I told her. "My dad does stuff like this all the time." "He should be arrested!" she shouted. "Okay, kids

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.