Intervention Quotes · Page 4

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

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be…

— Bill Frist

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new…

— Hannah Arendt

Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are…

— Angelina Jolie

[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

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

— Abbas Kiarostami

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

— Rachel Maddow

“Nothing fucks up a religion like an intervention from a real God.”

— Christopher Moore

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.

— Murray Rothbard

TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been…

— Ellen Hopkins

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the…

— Richard Holbrooke

Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This…

— Ron Paul

As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and…

— Gar Alperovitz

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

— Zach Galifianakis

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

— Taisen Deshimaru

Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial…

— Richard A. Falk

Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks…

— Garry Kasparov

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I was at the State Department, I was targeted by the Russian propaganda machine because I was one of the most…

— Jen Psaki