8 Quotes by Richard Manning

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.

We're going to try, but it's probably hopeless.

This sends a clear message that the people of Paris are not happy with what the city manager and the City Council have been trying to do.

Either way. We have been losing city employees. We have got to do something to build morale up.

Technology is needed not to beat the fish, but to beat other fishermen. The fish would still come back... if we would wait.

I really didn't know what to expect, but I knew the people were not happy with the way things were going. The people sent this same message in May, and I think they just spoke again. It's the citizens we work for, not the city manager or the City Council.