Quotes About Intervention

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry, "Hold, hold!"

With regard to the current crisis, what we have seen in government bailouts is not so much the solution to the deeper problems behind the economic crisis as it is a deferral of the consequences to some later time.

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

The only long-term, high-confidence strategy for the world not to be overwhelmed by terrorism is for economic development to go so well that terrorists have no place to incubate or hide...Perhaps the easy step is for the United States to give recognition to poor countries that make the needed changes by themselves. Thus part of the U.S. strategy for global economic development should be "inclusion", rather than the "preemption" and "intervention" of the fight against terrorism.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

Saving a life is not a matter of skill, it's a matter of opportunity.

People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge.

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.

Grace is not only something given by God, but it is God Himself doing things for us. Grace is not merely something objective that is given to us by God. Grace is God Himself coming to us and doing things for us. Are you weak? God will come to be your strength, and that coming of God is grace. Are you unable to face your situation? That need not be a problem, because God will come to stand with you and face that situation for and in you. This is grace.

However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement.

The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small.

There is reason to believe that, to some extent at least, the physical universe is actually 'constructed' by the intervention of the physicist, which is the reason John Wheeler refers to it as 'the participatory universe', and why Heisenberg states that physics deals, not with Nature as such, but with 'our relations to Nature'.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Beginning in 1968, China also sent 110,000 troops to Laos to fight the war.

Chinese intervention and assistance secured Ho's regime in the North from the US Rolling Thunder air campaign and enabled Ho to send more NVA regulars to the South.

American politics intervened and, in a sense, solved the evangelical identity problem—at grievous cost.

It's not yet too late [for juvenile delinquents]. There's still time to nudge them, if we think about nudging them rather than just punishing them.

Giving cash to a using addict is like handing a loaded gun to someone on the verge of suicide.

I wish someone had shaken me and said, "Intervene while you can before it's too late." It may not have made a difference, but I don't know.

If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.

I reached out and, with a small move of my body, did something that would change my life forever. I gently moved Amy aside and stepped down ahead of her, putting myself between her and the shadows.

If we can save at least one child from hurting themselves and destorying their lives then I believe we can say...We did our jobs!

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.