Quotes About Intervention

At the very least, Vietnam should stand as a permanent caution against going to war for any but the most immediate, direct, and vital national interest, or to prevent genocide or wider conflict, and then only in concert with other countries.

You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns. And in this real world, nobody had more or better guns than America. If the good-hearted ideals of humankind were to prevail, then they needed men who could make it happen.

they equally entertained a deep-rooted contempt for that portion of mankind who thought that property could be managed and protected without the intervention of lawyers. The outside world to them was a world of pretty, laughing, ignorant children; and lawyers were the parents, guardians, pastors, and masters by whom the children should be protected from the evils incident to their childishness

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.

The Firstborn probably believed that in their universal cauterization they were being benevolent.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.

Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention.

We are alone in confronting a different state of affairs; as we see it, there is a new kind of psychical material intervening between the content of the dream and the results of our reflections: the latent dream-content reached by our procedure, or the dream-thoughts. It is from this latent content, not the manifest, that we worked out the solution to the dream.

She remembered her late husband's precepts about the police. What they did not know, generally speaking, they did not need to know. Ignorance in the Police Force, he had always maintained, was a natural state, and who are we, he would ask with a disarming shrug of his shoulders, to interfere with nature?

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.

Stop—in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough.

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

In the life of a Christian, there are no accidents, only Divine appointments.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

With prayer of thanks, I wait in patient for God to act.

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

We have sometimes escaped from grave dangers not by any wisdom or foresight of our own, but by the intervention of unforeseen circumstances. So both the revelation of Scripture and our own individual experiences confirm the wisdom and good providence of God. He watches over His people from the earliest moment of their lives. He overrules and guards them through all their blind wanderings and leads them in a way that they know not.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.' A strong central government led by an effective executive was needed, as Washington had warned.

The emphasis of interpretation was rooted in their understanding that their endeavour would take a long time and that outside intervention too often comes wrapped in agendas and time frames that offer help but which demand outcomes related to foreign understandings of purpose and results.