Recourse Quotes

91 quotes by 85 authors

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without. — Dalai Lama
People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out. — Russell Simmons
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it… — Ludwig von Mises
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves; confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is… — Thomas Sankara
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'Ãªtre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination… — Ludwig von Mises
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. — Franz Grillparzer
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse… — Thomas Aquinas
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes… — William Hazlitt
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with… — Anthony Zinni
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… — Augustus De Morgan
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. — Graham Joyce
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must… — Michel de Montaigne
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have… — Thomas a Kempis
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. — Marshall McLuhan

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