Famous quotes containing the words emergency and/or number:
“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)
“Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.”
—Cyril Connolly (19031974)
Related Phrases
Related Words