Quotes About Intervention

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life.

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

Usually, they started with just two people bickering over something small. Like what to watch on TV. Then a third person would enter the room and see two people screaming over the TV and they'd decide to moderate, only they'd end up taking a side. Eventually, someone else would get sucked in.

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."=Ayn Rand

What we hold to be the result of a malign intervention could only make sense as an ordinary miscalculation, as an error, but now we find ourselves in the realm of nonexistent theologies—that is, theologies of fallible gods.

If the above observations are correct, no external interventions have a chance to create a better world unless they are associated with a profound transformation of human beings.

Hitler and Mussolini independently but simultaneously decided to intervene on the same side in Spain. This in turn led to a formal meeting between Hitler and Foreign Minister Ciano in October 1936, after which the formation of a "Rome-Berlin Axis" was announced.

Trying to adopt a consistent position on whether state intervention is good or bad for privacy may be like demanding that scientists choose whether light consists of waves or particles, when it consists of both.

The one thing I did ask my dad was about the boys problems at home. Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son. He told me to mind my own business. Because he didn't know and would never ask and didn't think it mattered. Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, its no excuse.

If that she-bear had eaten the baby it found o n the mountaintop instead of nursing it, how different the world would now have been

Given the intervention of the gods and other magical and supernatural happenings, I have—as mentioned in the Introduction that you so wisely skipped—thought it best to tell the story of the war and its aftermath without attempting to dot every sequential iota or cross every chronological tau.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

A scientific law is not a scientific law, if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene

A scientific law is not a scientific law if it only holds when some supernatural being decides to let things run and not intervene. In

Una ley científica no es una ley científica si solo se cumple cuando algún ser sobrenatural decide dejar que las cosas funcionen, y no intervenir.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

Doktrin determinisme sains ditolak banyak orang yang merasa doktrin itu membatasi kebebasan Tuhan untuk campur tangan di dunia.

Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.

Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try.

It's God's nature to come on in the bottom of the ninth, Tom had told her.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin

L.G. O'Connor, Trinity Stones

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.