38 Quotes About Intervention

Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks out through your toe. What are they for, moose antlers? Get down on all fours and live. You're protected on your hands and knees. It's either that or wings.

[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.

At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights advocate from Senegal would approach their jobs quite differently. Yet, while in Congo for a previous research project, I observed striking similarities in the ways that international interveners understand the situations they face and in the strategies they adopt, despite their otherwise extremely different national, professional, social, and economic backgrounds.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

Westerners do not know what is going on in Venezuela because westerners simply refuse to know what is going on in Venezuela and prefer to believe in a parallel reality. Yes, believe, that's the word, 'to believe', as the opposite of 'toknow'.

improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.

They who becry life, retreat within, once you tie a lifeline to their virtuous cycle, they will never understand the label of death.

A cup of tea silences the love in silence.

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