Quotes About Intervention

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

while probabilities encode our beliefs about a static world, causality tells us whether and how probabilities change when the world changes, be it by intervention or by act of imagination.

If there is something right in Beauvoir's claim that one is born, but rather becomes a woman, it follows that woman itself is a term in process, a becoming, a constructing that cannot rightfully be said to originate or to end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it is open to intervention and resignification.

The commonplace becomes exceptional when God is involved.

N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir

That's why activists go in and try to slow down the logging. They want some trees to be left standing by the time the regulatory agencies show up or the courts give a ruling.

Muchas gracias, no sabe cómo le agradezco su ayuda, sin usted no podría reconstruir la vida de mi bisabuela. —¿Y por qué ha de reconstruirla? Si usted no hubiera aparecido en esta casa, todo seguiría igual y nos moriríamos tranquilas sin mirar al pasado.

He wanted to come along," said the one in the corner, the only one who hadn't yet tried to kill Phillip. Phillip decided he liked this one best, especially when he wrapped his hand around Gregory's forearm to prevent the younger man from launching himself at Eloise. Which

The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it's happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.