Quotes About Intervention

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

you could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence...

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

God knows exactly where we are and precisely where He wants us and He takes an active role in getting us there.

Attempt something so big, that unless God intervenes, it's bound to fail.

God's activity in our lives and in our world is self-evident if we choose to remember, recognize, and credit it. What has God already done? That's the key question.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him.

Endless talk about enriched curricula, Head Start, empowerment, Afrocentrism, victimization, special education, dysfunctionality, self-esteem, social justice, role models, etc., fails to recognize the most important fact of all: All too often, the children of indigent, unmarried fifteen-year-olds start life with problems we cannot fix. Government programs cannot take the place of loving, responsible parents.

Lancaster says that the magic around a reinvention intervention is that the people involved in the process have a say but the establishment—the leadership—doesn't. "I was there as one member of a team wearing jeans and working alongside everyone else," says Lancaster, "not as a boss, owner, or CEO.

Cuando alguien decide matarse, no hay manera de impedirlo.

If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.

The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.

It was essentially a civil war, conducted under the watchful eye and occasional intervention of the British Mandatory authorities, in which the Palestinian Arab community, assisted by a sizeable pan-Arab irregular force, sought to prevent its Jewish counterpart from laying the foundation of statehood in line with the UN resolution.

observing the way the rig needed only occasional human intervention to stay locked on the road. Doubtless it could have managed with none at all, were it not for local union laws. Very

State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.

To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

a good time to be thinking about all that, given that we're just about to tear a new hole in the ass of Iraq.