Quotes About Intervention

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

It's a lot harder to save people than you think it is.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

The harm is in the unwanted help or helping them when they need to figure things out for themselves. Help is the sunny side of control.

God makes a way out of no way.

Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

A firm hand was placed against my chest to steady me and to hold me back.

A lifeguard doesn't have to spend much time pitching to the drowning person. When you show up with a life buoy, if the drowning person understands what's at stake, you don't have to run ads to get them to hold on to it.

come not between the dragon and his wrath

But somebody had to do something

The British tended to base their refusal to intervene in famines with adequate governmental measures on a combination of three sets of considerations: free trade principles (do not interfere with market forces), Malthusian doctrine (growth in population beyond the ability of the land to sustain it would inevitably lead to deaths, thereby restoring the 'correct' level of population) and financial prudence (don't spend money we haven't budgeted for).

Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x dollars multiplied by the total number of lives that need saving. Stopping poverty one victim at a time is like mowing a lawn one blade at a time. The problem grows faster than the cure can be applied, the only people who profit are the agencies who claim to be cutting grass while they're actually applying fertilizer.

Enough, children. In case you haven't noticed, we have a major situation playing out. We have to find and stop War, corral the gallu, protect Apostolos, and get Savitar out of here. (Apollymi) Why the later? (Jared) Because I hate his guts. (Apollymi) I hate you, too, precious. (Savitar)