Noninterventionism Quotes & Sayings

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing. — Michael Reagan

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' — Quincy Jones

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell. — Francois Lelord

I don't think we'll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we're going to change what's rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution "schools" very well, but it does not "educate"; that's inherent in the design of the thing. It's not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It's just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing. — John Taylor Gatto

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out. — Niall Ferguson

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements — Pythagoras

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child. — Swami Vivekananda

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow

Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir. — Patrick DeWitt

I prefer to think about problems the way engineers do. If a valve doesn't work, they don't say, "Well, we must have valves, so let's try two valves." If a valve doesn't work, they say, "Well, what would work?" Their rule is, if it doesn't work, don't do it more, do something else. — Daniel Quinn

Don't think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face. — Megan Smith

If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement". — Christopher Hitchens

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

America ... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts, — Paul Theroux

When all along ... well, what I was hoping you'd realize ... '
'My mystery guy was you,' I finish in a whisper.
'Well, yeah,' he says. He reaches out and touches my chin-once, gently. 'I really like you, Julia. A lot. I-I want to be with you. — Lauren Morrill

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough. — Robert D. Kaplan

Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for. — Seth Shostak

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. — Christopher Hitchens

Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace. — Christopher Hitchens

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. — Christopher Hitchens

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere. — Zbigniew Brzezinski