Intervention Quotes - Page 13

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

  William Blum

  Military, War, World

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.162, Zed Books

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• My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Awards, Race, Years

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• I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater.

  Chuck Feeney

  Meaningful, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.

  Andy Stanley

  Emotional, Giving, Results

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• When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Liberty

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• 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.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Angel, Perfect

  Chris Hedges (2009). “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Teaching, Devil

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• What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

  Rich Wilkerson Jr.

  Interruptions

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• An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

  Henry Paulson

  Financial, Prosperity, Resources

  "Bankers & Brokers Have Learned Nothing From the Current Crisis" by Joseph L. Shaefer, seekingalpha.com. May 13, 2009.

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Ideas, Would Be

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• With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Powerful, Government

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• Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

  Philip Yancey

  Broken, Agents, World

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• Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

  David Mura

  Imagination, Belief, Defiance

  David Mura (2010). “Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity”, p.28, Anchor

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• From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

  D. A. Fisher

  Education, Teaching, Exercise

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• I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Men, Evil

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Evil, Church

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• It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

  Bill Gates

  Poverty, Improving, Proven

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• We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

  Walter Ciszek

  Education, Mean, Home

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• Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Law, Agnostic, Authority

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• ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

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• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  Denise Caruso

  Government, Hands, Practice

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Moving, Use, Body

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Religious, People, Needs

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• In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Army, Direct Action, Government

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