Quotes About Intervention

The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people—while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices—smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.

The older generation of politicians was deaf to their appeals: to many on the conservative Right and Center state intervention in the economy was still abhorrent, while on the socialist Left it was generally believed that only a post-revolutionary society could plan its economic affairs rationally.

He knew that to allow those actions to go on unchecked could allow future generations to keep falling and there might never be any correction.

God's miracles are a prayer away.

We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.

For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

The Prime Directive exists to remind us that we are not gods. We don't get to reorganize every world, every civilization, every existence out here in our own image,

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing." "I'm supposed to watch her make a mistake?" "Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.

Since God actually became visible man, no visible man should leave the visible world to its own devices.

First, you must understand what CPS is. CPS is a disastrous organization that destroys families for economic gain. It's important for not only you, but also for your friends, neighbors, and children to know what this agency is. How

Even when philanthropist Pierre S. Du Pont launched a program to bring these schools up to code, white residents made it clear that they not only opposed public funding for black schools but were equally resistant to private, philanthropic resources intervening as well.

Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.

Jesus take the wheel

If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds.

Help is a hindrance if it isn't wanted.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

A good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

Ratzinger was afraid to intervene on a deadlocked Roman Curia, with reformers on one side, and the money changers on the other," wrote author Gianluigi Nuzzi. "So he decided to create a clean slate by bowing out and paving the way for the election of a strong Pope."34

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.