Providing Material Support

Famous quotes containing the words providing, material and/or support:

    “When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally—as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing—if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A clergyman, again, can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face. It is his profession to support one side; it is impossible, therefore, for him to make an unbiased examination of the other.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)