Quotes About Intervention

Top-down solutions have a tendency to confiscate problems from those whose problems they are.

In the course of the panic, he provided almost $6 million to fifty-eight individuals and firms who were turned down by banks and desperately needed his intervention.

the government should rein in irresponsible trusts but not meddle with good ones.

Had the action not been taken, more than half the brokerage houses on Wall Street might have gone belly-up.

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

There would have been ten squad cars there in a thin minute.

We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.

The implication is that the people of God were lost and that God had to do something—as he had always done—to intervene and set them back on the right track. But there was a difference this time. This was the last time. This was the last chance.

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late 2008 and early 2009, government officials started seeing visions of the 1930s and turned

John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late 2008 and early 2009, government officials started seeing visions of the 1930s and turned immediately to the teachings of Lord Keynes.

The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.