Quotes About Intervention

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat.

The rule of thumb is that, when first placed, children will relate to new parents in much the same way that they related to former parents or orphanage workers. Without intervention, often this relationship style persists. Parents who are aware of both their own and their children's challenges in forming trust relationships and emotional modulation are in the best position to develop strategies to strengthen their families and to meet the challenges.

Do you think it was part of some plan, that you got shot so you would end up in that church and discover religion?' Bruce shook his head. 'I got shot because someone was willing to exchange the name of an undercover cop for a lot of cash. Ending up in church--God was just kind enough to make something come out of the disaster that hit my life.

As Bryce likes to say, a lot of coincidences seem to occur when you pray.

Quit bullying Mr. Carlisle," Billy said. "He's simply trying to help." Hunter made a slicing action with his hand. "Not another word, Billy." Narrowing her eyes, she leaned right up to him. "I'll talk if I want to, when I want to, and how I want to. Lalalalalalalalalala." Sweet mother of all that is good and holy, but he wanted to wring her neck.

Como nos recuerda Savater, la democracia no es un régimen para estar quieto. Y la nuestra se encuentra tan descompuesta que urge estar atentos, vigilantes, prestos para intervenir y corregir y echar del puesto a quien te ha desilusionado

Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.

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.

Fourth, it may be that remediation is less effective than prevention and starting at a young age (childhood) to combat stereotypes may offer a more effective solution.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

When God's putting His finger on the part of your life that's not working, He's pointing to your next miracle.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

In the absence of certainty about what is best, in the presence of someone who is needy and vulnerable, there is a compelling urge for us to do something.

Be available to cover for a teacher who is de-escalating a challenging student. It is symbolically very meaningful when an administrator offers to cover a class, for even three minutes, so that the teacher can complete a complex interaction with a challenging student. Designate other faculty that can also be tapped when the need arises.

Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and even tiny Granada, among many others, were interpreted by U.S. strategists as battlegrounds with the Soviet empire.

When there is a problem, do not just keep going with the intention of fixing it later. Stop and fix the problem now.

We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

The cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.