A Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

P. J. O'Rourke

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P. J. O'Rourke
American - Comedian
Born: November 14, 1947

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

Bertrand Russell

The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

Howard Dean

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.

John Caples

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

Madonna Ciccone

To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

Marianne Williamson

I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

Felicia Day

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

Gordon Brown

The fundamental purpose of Marxism is the total control of a population under the belief that individualism and free markets lead to great disparities and inequalities and injustices and unfairness. Now, this is the outward appeal. Marxism is evil, and Marx knew it, but the appeal that seduces people is its justice and equality and fairness. What they don't tell you is the equality is spread equally to the point everybody's miserably equal and miserably the same.

Rush Limbaugh

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Henri Bergson

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Edmund Hillary

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.

Melissa de la Cruz

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

Omar Sharif

The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.

Oliver Wolcott

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

Henri Bergson

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

Natsuo Kirino

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Mahatma Gandhi

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