Quotes About Intervention

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

No individual and no nation need fear at any time to have less money than it needs. Government measures designed to regulate the international movement of money in order to ensure that the community shall have the amount it needs, are just as unnecessary and inappropriate as, say, intervention to ensure a sufficiency or corn or iron or the like. This argument dealt the Mercantilist Theory its death-blow.

A metallic money, the augmentation or diminution of the quantity of metal available for which is independent of deliberate human intervention, is becoming the modern monetary ideal. The significance of adherence to a metallic-money system lies in the freedom of the value of money from State influence that such a system guarantees.

Every word of etatistic thought is contradicted by the doctrines of sociology and economics; this is why etatists endeavour to prove that these sciences do not exist. In their opinion, social affairs are shaped by the State. To the law, all things are possible; and there is no sphere in which State intervention is not omnipotent.

Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

If God decides to mess with our plans, get ready. He will almost surely have something better planned for our day.

Please dont act like you do. You dont care, I know you dont. Youve watched me destroy myself for too long now. If you really cared, you would have tried to stop it by now.

Standing up for a friend is a way of giving them support when they are being criticized, teased or taken advantage of.

Friends don't let friends drink and type!

I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ruined.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

If you see your friend making a mistake and you refuse to warn or correct him/her, you are not a friend but, an enemy in disguise.

When karma finally hits you in the face, I'll be there...Just in case it needs some help.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.

I cannot pass by seeing a child shouted at, and people dropping litter. I'm terrible for intervening. There's nothing worse than busybodies like me. I should learn to mind my own business.

The U.K. military role in Iraq ended a very long way from success.

I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.