Famous quotes containing the words emergency and/or special:
“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudentwar being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The rebellion is against time pollution, the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth livingthe small moments, the special family getaways, the cookies in the oven, the weekend drives, the long dreamlike summers Mso much of this has been taken from us, or we have given it up. For what? Hitachi stereos? Club Med? Company cars? Racquetball? For fifteen-hour days and lousy day care?”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
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