Intervention Quotes - Page 12

• The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, People, Roles

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah.

  Edward Said

  Army, Government, Views

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.

  Laura Mullen

  Book, Desire, Batteries

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

  Michael Sandel

  Race, Arms, Height

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Thinking, Differences

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

  Harville Hendrix

  Social Transformation, Therapeutic, Transformation

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• All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Evil, Abuse

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.45, Penguin

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• [Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Regulation, Way, Planning

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• By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Writing, Fake

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

  Julie Bishop

  Support, Challenges, Prevention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

  Bram van Velde

  Color, Intensity, Revealing

  "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht", by Paul Groot, newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", 1979.

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• The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Country, Integrity, Rights

  "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.

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• If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Mother, Religious, Believe

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• Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Humanity, Mind

  "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

  Arnold Kling

  Clever, Thinking, Government

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• Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

  Atul Gawande

  Sacrifice, Risk, Suffering

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.136, Metropolitan Books

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• I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Worry, Matter

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• We are the rags to riches story okay the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally okay, God's gonna take "Duck Dynasty" where he wants it to go okay and to the people that he wants it to go to.

  Si Robertson

  Humble, Ducks, People

  "Uncle Si Compares Sacrifice of U.S. Troops to that of Jesus Christ". Interview with Jennifer Wishon, blogs.cbn.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, People, Divine

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.

  Thomas Huxley

  Crush, Men, Views

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 1, p. 28, 1884.

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

  Thomas R. Insel

  News Stories, Medicine, Good News

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