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314 Resort quotes by 260 unique authors
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If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be…
— Alan Dershowitz
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You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the…
— Alan Dershowitz
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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
— Mohsin Hamid
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
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Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of…
— King Hussein I
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has…
— Carl Jung
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to…
— H. L. Mencken
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as…
— Michael Musto
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter…
— Steven Pinker
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
— Colin Powell
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
— Samantha Power
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I…
— Buddy Rich
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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the…
— Paul Ryan
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I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
— Muqtada al Sadr
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I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.
— Steven Seagal
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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive…
— Will Self
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As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved…
— Arlen Specter
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however,…
— Lech Walesa
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