Quotes About Intervention

The point is that no matter what you do or don't do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Whenever we engage in a war or move in on some other country, it is always to liberate somebody.

Así funciona la cabeza de mamá: los hombres en general, y nuestro padre en particular, llevan las riendas de las cosas. Pero en el fondo, en la penumbra, las mujeres disponemos de una sanción final, de una palabra inapelable. Si el clan por algún motivo está en peligro y los hombres, en su ceguera consuetudinaria, en su simpleza ramplona, no advierten el riesgo, somos nosotras las que debemos intervenir.

There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.

no organised being could ever have been called into existence by other agency than by the direct intervention of a reflective mind.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

Friends don't let friends drive drunk.

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.

Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away.

Behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.

Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball.

What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

We can force treatment on those who would refuse (chapters 1, 4 and 6); we can separate people from their families.

when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.

As so often happens in human affairs, fate intervened at the moment of victory and destroyed the best-laid plans.

Cicero asked the Senators if they wished to banish Catilina. This was an ill-judged intervention. Embarrassed by Catilina's presence, the majority said nothing. Cleverly retrieving the situation, Cicero then asked if they would order him to banish Quintus Lutatius Catulus, one of the House's most respected members. They roared back, "No." This allowed the Consul to claim that, by its silence, the Senate had in fact consigned the revolutionary to exile.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.

You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe. Public opinion and, crucially, the cabinet was deeply divided on whether to intervene or stay out.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.