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And the Lord Rupert looked at his work, and even he saw that it was a load of crap, but this was the enterprise culture and it sold millions so it was good. And on the same basis he decided to take over the television too, and the earth itself wept, and little robins vomited, and cuddly furry animals threw themselves under trains, and the whole thing was filmed by Sky Channel for a horror nature programme, and the most awful thing of all was that this was just the beginning.
attila the stockbroker— "The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from . Retrieved 2007-03-26.
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as'The Boneless Wonder'. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on theTreasury Bench.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill— 1931 Alluding to Ramsay MacDonald. Speech in the House of Commons, 28 Jan.
We should seek byall means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain— 1938 Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.
The Labour Party's election programme?is the most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. This is not socialism. It is bolshevism run mad.
— 1931 Radio broadcast,17 Oct.
In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only thatthe world be made fit and safeto live in.The programme oftheworld'speace, therefore, is our programme.
— 1918 The'Fourteen Points'speech to Congress, 8 Jan.
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
tony benn— As quoted in The Times (1 October 1973)
Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Screenwipe, a programme all about television.
charlie brooker— Introductory message on every episode of Screenwipe, usually said in an odd way (for example, with Brooker slapping himself as he says it).
MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.
laraine day— The Independent, Obituaries, Laraine Day, November 13, 2007
I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.
luke haines— [3]
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
edward heath— October 1970 speech to the Conservative Party conference.
Remember, PM is not here to give financial advice. Your interest in the programme may go down as well as up.
eddie mair— Mair (2003) cited in: Eddie Mair in: The Daily Grind Jonathan. Sanderson’s weblog, May 23, 2003.
— Quote while concluding a slightly incomprehensible interview on financial affairs with the PM.
"How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan"
josé luis rodríguez zapatero— Note: April 2005, regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country.
— Source: El Correo, Saturday 9th April 2005, p. 23
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn’t count, but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..
paul cézanne— p. 124 (Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations)
The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.
pat condell— YouTube video (May 26, 2011; from YouTube)
Second, and far more serious, are particular examples of a sophistry and sleight of hand in the misuse of metaphor, and more importantly a distortion of metaphysics in support of an evolutionary programme.
simon conway morris— p.314 (Life's Solution (2003))
Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only programme of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.
— "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism" (August - October 1916) Collected Works, Vol. 23, pp. 28-76 [1]
Our business is to help get everything possible done to make sure the "last" chance for a peaceful development of the revolution, to help by the presentation of our programme, by making clear its national character, its absolute accord with the interests and demands of a vast majority of the population.
— "The Tasks of the Revolution" (9 October 1917); Collected Works, Vol. 26, 1972, pp. 59 - 68
Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.
— Collected Works, Vol. 20, pp. 393–454
The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies and I rather doubt that they would would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.
richard perle— The Times (25 September, 1986).
In the course of a mere eighteen months, crowded with cares and problems, he laid down a coherent programme of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects. A comparable period in the reigns of his predecessor and of his successor shows no such accomplishment.
richard iii of england— Paul Murray Kendall (1973), Richard III, page 319
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
snowden, philip, 1st viscount snowden— BBC radio broadcast (17 October, 1931).
My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
dawud wharnsby— As quoted in "Global citizen", interview in Scouts (July/August 2010), p. 41
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
alfred de zayas— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]
Had he come we would have been really happy. This decision is taken because of [India's] internal political reasons, but it will not affect the success of this programme, we don't think it is a problem.
— Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GL Pieris, told the BBC on Sunday that Mr Singh's decision was "not a defeat for us", quoted on BBC News, "India PM to boycott Sri Lanka Commonwealth summit", November 10, 2013.
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]
Looking back the great American ‘stabilisation’ [and boom] of 1922-1929 was really a vast attempt to destabilise the value of money in terms of human effort by means of a colossal programme of investment [driven by too easy credit]... which succeeded for a surprisingly long period, but which no human ingenuity could have managed to direct indefinitely on sound and balanced lines. [and therefore it ended dramatically in the huge 1929 stock market crash followed by the Great Depression].
— Dennis Holme Robertson in "How Do We Want Gold to Behave?." The International Gold Problem, Humphrey Milford (1932): As cited in imagi-natives.com; Also cited in: Murray N. Rothbard (2013) America's Great Depression (LFB) p. 1921.
Jack Horkheimer, presenter of the popular astrononomy programme Star Gazer
— "Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition. I can do little else in my present position." [2]
Renouveler les choses connues, vulgariser les choses neuves: un bon programme pour un critique.
charles augustin sainte-beuve— To lend freshness to things known, to spread knowledge of things new; an excellent program for a critic.Causeries du lundi, vol. 11 (1856; Paris: Garnier, 1868) p. 512; Philo M. Buck, Jr. Literary Criticism (New York: Harper, 1930) p. 398
