Quotes About Intervention

My inner caveman decided it didn't matter. Fuck safety, and fuck picket fences. London Armstrong obviously couldn't take care of herself, which meant someone needed to step in and fix this shit. If that meant claiming her, so be it.

Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right my boy.

You did right my boy, whether the fellow gets a summons or not. Many folks would have ridden by and said 'twas not their business to interfere. Now, I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

For . Butler (1991:13-14), 'identity categories tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes, whether as the normalizing categories of oppressive structures or as the rallying points for a liberatory contestation of that very oppression'. Formerly assumed to be a prerequisite for political intervention, the assertion of collective identities is now routinely understood to put into circulation effects in excess of its avowed intention.

And sometimes loving someone means being willing to fight them into the ground if they're putting themselves in danger or doing something wrong.

The anticipated benefit must always outweigh the potential risk when an intervention is to be used. ...Proceeding with any intervention may produce undesirable results. Likewise, failing to intervene when it is called for can have dire consequences.

the U.S. military did little to stop poppy production. Some go so far as to say the United States has deliberately tried to get Russians hooked.

issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.

President Putin has said courts may now mandate treatment for addicts

Luck is what intervenes between your decision (which has a range of possible outcomes) and the outcome that you actually get. Because any decision determines only the set of possible outcomes (some good, some bad, some in between), this means good outcomes can result from both good and bad

When we think probabilistically, we are less likely to use adverse results alone as proof that we made a decision error, because we recognize the possibility that the decision might have been good but luck and/ or incomplete information (and a sample size of one) intervened.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Taking action at an early stage - even before a prosecution may be possible - could stop stalkers becoming fixated.

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.