Last Refuge Quotes
55 quotes by 41 authors
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
— Leonard Cohen
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
— Kim Stanley
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,…
— Michio Kaku
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
— Quentin Crisp
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Boies Penrose
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Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.
— Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to…
— Neil Postman
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The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
— George Carlin
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Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a…
— John Tillotson
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Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
— Jean Cocteau
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Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
— Bob Dylan
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I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— George Galloway
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