Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I… — George Sanders Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first. — Sheldon Adelson Copy Share Image
It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
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