Intervention Quotes - Page 17

• What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, Limits, Doe

  "Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Children, Powerful, Parent

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Bipolar, Mindfulness

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• Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

  Jack Keane

  Military, Goal, Leader

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Wings, People

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• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  Samantha Power

  Military, Feelings, Lasts

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• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Army

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

  Jay Weatherill

  Fashion, Strong, Thinking

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• We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

  Andrew Weil

  Powerful, People, Sick

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Worry, Focus

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• But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Philosophical, Exercise

  "Discipline and Punish". Book by Michel Foucault, 1977.

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• Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

  Brian Eno

  Roles, Littles, Results

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• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

  John Medina

  People, What If, Unhappy

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

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• If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

  Steve Sailer

  Real, Differences, Glasses

  "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Views, Long

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

  Benito Mussolini

  Political, May, Management

  "Mediterranean Fascism 1919-1945" by Charles F. Delzell, The MacMillan Press, (p. 122), 1971.

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• By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

  Thomas Szasz

  Practice, Agents, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press

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• I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

  William E. Gladstone

  Character, Evil, Would Be

  Debate on the Women's Disabilities Bill in the House of Commons on May 03, 1871. "Parliamentary Debates", Volume 206, Col. 91,

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• In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Exercise, Men, Cities

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.289

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• This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Running, Destiny, Civilization

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

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• Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Miracle, Helping, Painting

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• Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2189, Delphi Classics

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• Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.

  Gilbert F. White

  Taken, Ignorance, Men

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.

  Sushma Swaraj

  Play, Coincidence, Divine

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