Intervention Quotes - Page 7

• In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Believe, Differences

  "Fiscal policy announcements show Labour and the Tories are diverging at last" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2008.

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• On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Facts, Helpful

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• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using

  Jonathon Porritt

  New York, Children, Government

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• Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

  Hugo Chavez

  Saying No, Rising, Imperialism

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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Military, Army, Reality

  "How Jimmy Carter & I Started the Mujahideen". www.liveleak.com. January, 1998.

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• With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?

  Shirley Ann Jackson

  Real, Important, Humans

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• China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Country, Reality, Government

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• It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.

  Marwan al-Muasher

  Hands, Thought Provoking, Figures

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• Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

  William Styron

  Depression, Cancer, Healing

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Religious, Heart, Keys

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• Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Architecture, Building

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• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Responsibility, Personality

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• Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

  Stuart Green

  Bullying, Adults

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• Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

  Samantha Power

  Hypocrite, Rights, Historical

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• The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

  A. V. Dicey

  Sight, Evil, Liberty

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• Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Real, People

  Michael Parenti (1995). “Against Empire”, p.77, City Lights Books

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.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. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Islamic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Government Intervention, Debt, Behavior

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I always say the Syrian problem as isolated case, as Syrian case, is not very complicated. What makes it complicated is the interference from the outside, especially the Western interference because it's against the will of the Syrian government, while the intervention of the Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah is because of the invitation of the Syrian government.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Hezbollah, Problem

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure and of education. We're not supplying that infrastructure at an appropriate rate today. I don't doubt it isn't just money; it's organization and goals and so forth.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Organization, Goal, Doubt

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad.

  Rand Paul

  Christian, Worry, Today

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

  China Mieville

  Information, Increase, Sustenance

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• For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

  Melanie Lynskey

  Stories, Care, I Don't Care

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hands, Ideas, People

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.48, Random House

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