#intervention

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

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

— Thomas Cushman

#intervention #iraq #iraq-war #liberalism #iraq

Sometimes, a war saves people. ↗

— José Ramos-Horta

#humanitarianism #pacifism #war #iraq

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

— Christopher Moore

#intervention #religion #truth #love

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#demands #effect #god #ideas #inasmuch

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

— Rick Ross

#aware #cult #group #information #intervention

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. ↗

— George Orwell

#dictatorship #interventionism #pacifism #totalitarianism #war

Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#blessed #divine #even #feel #how

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. ↗

— Max Baucus

#foreign #global #governments #had #ignored