Best Last Resort Quotes
110 Last Resort quotes by 94 unique authors
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly…
— Renata Adler
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The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
— Cornel West
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn…
— Hans Blix
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Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the…
— Mario Savio
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary…
— Aldous Huxley
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Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of…
— Robert Paul Wolff
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The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting…
— Lech Walesa
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The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us…
— Adolf Hitler
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Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our…
— Julia Hill
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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War should always be the absolute last resort.
— Joe Biden
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First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last…
— Paul Klee
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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has…
— Edward Said
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In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress,…
— Elizabeth Warren
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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
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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
— Jerry Brown
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I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
— Roger Mahony
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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 China to industrialise,…
— Evan Davis
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I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late…
— Linwood Barclay
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Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned…
— Dennis Cardoza
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People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
— Mickey Kaus
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