Intervention Quotes

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

I am a big believer in early intervention.

— Temple Grandin

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

— Erwin Chargaff

Art is manipulation without intervention.

— Louise Bourgeois

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

— Moshe Sharett

Ya see what happens when they cancel Intervention?

— Rihanna

“Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?” (205)”

— Jeanette Winterson

In 2013 I voted against military intervention in Syria.

— Crispin Blunt

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

— William Blum

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

— Noam Chomsky

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

— Rick Ross

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

— Noam Chomsky

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

— Robert Breault

All I ask is that you wait until after St. Patrick's Day if you happen to be planning my intervention.

— Anonymous

Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.

— Peter Bergen

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different…

— Milton Friedman

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick.…

— Bill Maher

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling…

— S. Jay Olshansky

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953…

— Edward Said

What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian…

— Noam Chomsky

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so…

— Alain de Botton

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15…

— John Stossel

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the…

— Henry Adams

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not…

— Karl Marx

One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are…

— Nicholas Lemann

I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that…

— Ira Glass

I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when…

— Denis Leary

With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of…

— Michael Parenti

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the…

— Alexander Kluge

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot…

— Richard Bentall

Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that…

— Tony Blair

I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military…

— Janice Hahn

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of…

— Stephen Kinzer

Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…

— Michael Hardt

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…

— Edward Said

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq,…

— Tariq Ali