“No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.” MadeGovernmentPastFacesIndividualSupportPolicySentencesTerroristInterventionAustralianDiplomaticLead InIntervening Author:Kevin Rudd
“Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.” WayHumansIndividualNationsExistenceQualityLibertyMoralProduceJewCharacteristicsMaintainingInterventionEnglishmenEliminationUnwantedSterilization Author:Francis Galton
“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.” PeopleFeelsGovernmentDesireTurnsPoliticsIndividualEconomyReadyInstitutionsLeavingAffairActiveTyrannyManageProportionLiberalismAppetitePerpetualInitiativeAccustomedInterventionTutelageRepelling Author:John Stuart Mill