As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this… — Jay Rasulo Copy Share Image
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
I am very good at finding snow when there's very little snow. From a day in, day out perspective, I'm fine. I… — Jeremy Jones Copy Share Image
I think when you go skiing you have to buy into the après, so it has to be lively for me. There… — Mike Tindall Copy Share Image
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
[Kingston, Jamaica] is the city, it's not a beautiful beach. But at the same time when I go to Jamaica, that's the… — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program.… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image