Quotes About Intervention

The severity of the Wall Street crash, he argued, was not due to the unrestrained license of a freebooting capitalist system, but to government insistence on keeping a boom going artificially by pumping in inflationary credit.

A government that has a permanent standing army at its disposal will always be tempted to use it, and to use it in an aggressive, interventionist, and warlike manner.

Analysis tries to uncover the complexes and expose them to the conscious reflection of the ego. This intervention can alter them somewhat. In analysis a person learns how the complexes function, what triggers their constellation, and what can prevent their endless repetition. Without such intervention on the part of the ego, a complex will behave like an animated foreign body or an infection. In the grip of a complex, a person can feel quite helpless and emotionally out of control.

The war in Ukraine makes Americans and Westerners look almost like angels when it comes to invading other nations.

What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs.

Prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

Conservative churches have spoken of miracles, in the sense of a god normally outside suddenly reaching in, doing something dramatic, and then going away again.

If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared.

You helped him stay stable.* *No, Ivy. I made sure he didn't go over the final edge, but that isn't enough.*

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

In the larger scheme of things, the modern complaint against state intervention echoes the old English fear of social leveling, which was said to encourage the unproductive. In its later incarnation, government assistance is said to undermine the American dream. Wait. Undermine whose American dream?

Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

Because the results of scientific investigation seem to suggest that government really did need to intervene in the marketplace if pollution and public health were to be effectively addressed, the defenders of the free market refused to accept those results. The enemies of government regulation of the marketplace became the enemies of science.

That he had received these checks now he put down to human intervention – officialdom trying to 'control the situation' using their usual method of clamping down on people's rights.

As you well know, Polity or Prador intervention in the Graveyard is frowned upon,' said the drone. 'If Polity forces were to turn up here, then your king would have to respond, by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the course of your future. The process of rising from your present concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it in the world of experience.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

All life "colonizes." Everything that lives aspires to live infinitely. Nothing spontaneously limits itself. No harmony is the result of mutual respect or reciprocal restraint; harmony stems from hostile interventions and the temporary balance of forces.

If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

Perhaps there were some angels watching over him; sometimes they turn up on the wrong side.