Quotes About Intervention

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

Cuando la libre competencia en el mercado es reemplazada por la intervención de un tercero que obliga a las empresas a facilitar las cosas a sus competidores, cuesta ver cómo esto puede ayudar a la competencia, y no simplemente a los competidores

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention treatment.

We cannot institutionalize helping the victims of personal disasters.

In other words, government had always been big for people like us, and we were fine with that. But beginning in the 1960s, as people of color began to gain access to the benefits for which we had always been eligible, suddenly we discovered our inner libertarian and decided that government intervention was bad

And each of us has tried to be the Holy Spirit in another person's life, trying to work spiritual changes that only God can accomplish.

he embraced only a presumption of laissez-faire. That is, the burden is on the proponent of government to show that the greater happiness requires intervention: every departure from (laissez-faire), unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)

Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results. Prayer is more than getting on our knees or clasping our hands while closing our eyes. Prayer is an attitude of operating in conjunction with God. Prayer involves exercising our authority for heavenly intervention in our earthly affairs.

La oración del reino es el método divinamente autorizado para acceder a la autoridad celestial para una intervención terrenal. Tal oración es el permiso que la tierra otorga al cielo para intervenir en la realidad que existe aquí abajo con la manifestación de la realidad espiritual que existe allá arriba.

Dios no interviene a la fuerza en nuestras circunstancias. En cambio, espera a que se lo pidamos; que hablemos con Él en oración.

Detrás de cada milagro se encuentra un plan mayor.

Exodus 2:11–15).

The United Nations showed little initial concern—its inadequate and unconcerned Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, described Bosnia as 'a rich man's war'—

However, for Keynes it had become self-evident that the best defense against political extremism and economic collapse was an increased role for the state, including but not confined to countercyclical economic intervention.

two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.

For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives.