Quotes with resort

  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
  • In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
  • Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
  • Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
  • But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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  • Malcolm X Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Arlen Specter As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Buddy Rich But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Jerry Brown The government is becoming the family of last resort.
    Jerry Brown
    American politician (1938 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Buddha They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Newhart You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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