Quotes About Intervention

We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One asshole in the middle.

It's Laissez-Faire Until You Get In Deep Shit

Cities that intervened immediately after the arrival of the virus experienced far less disease and death.

including those circumstances where social distancing measures, limitations on gatherings or quarantine authority may be an appropriate public health intervention.

In 1965 the Indonesian military—advised, equipped, trained, and financed by the U.S. military and the CIA—overthrew President Achmed Sukarno and eradicated the Indonesian Communist Party and its various allies, killing half a million people (some estimates are as high as a million) in what was the greatest act of political mass murder since the Holocaust.

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

If someone on Instagram sees that a friend is in a harmful situation, they can report it.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

The particular combination of the explicit communication of high standards and the demonstrated assurance of the teacher's belief in the student's ability to succeed (as evidenced by the effort to provide detailed, constructive feedback) was a powerful intervention for Black students...it was an exceedingly effective way to generate the trust needed to motivate Black students to make their best effort.

sixth president leaves you clueless? I will help you. He was John Quincy Adams, and he once said, 'Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.

This is the opposite of the free market.

Since 1945, when Jesus granted America air superiority, we have bombed Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Somalia, Bosnia, The Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. And Yemen only because the tenth one was free. How did we inherit this moral obligation of bringing justice to the world via death from above? Are we Zeus? It doesn't make any sense. Our schools are crumbling and we wanna teach everyone else a lesson.

Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's police men but more like George Zimmerman. Itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice.

Our prayers are vital to our Lord. He works through them.

It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said. "It's what we saved him from doing.

Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them.

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

I asked that goddess for help, and all we got were these stupid monkeys.

Excuse me, she said politely. But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.