Recourse Quotes

91 quotes by 85 authors

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. — Pierre Bonnard
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other… — Marcus Garvey
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. — Baltasar Gracian
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there… — Samuel Johnson
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is… — Octavio Paz
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that… — Robert Smith
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he… — Christopher Paolini
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from… — Alan Moore
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and manâ€™s only recourse… — Yukio Mishima
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has… — Alberto Manguel
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse… — Sam Harris
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I… — Kevin Hearne
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. — Khaled Hosseini
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no… — Nelson Mandela
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely… — Ralph Bunche

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