You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.
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.
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].
Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.
If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.
I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention. ' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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.
If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the greatest form of human intervention on our environment. It has intimately shaped our culture as powerfully as industrial modernity, but for ten thousand years rather than two hundred.
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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.
Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.
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.
Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Weird love's better than no love at all.
Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.
I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.
