Quotes of: Recourse Keyword

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 what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and histor...

Octavio Paz

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

Manmohan Singh

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Graham Joyce

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

I have no taste for poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The House at Riverton

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.

The Vesuvius Club

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

Jeremy Stoppelman

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

James Fenimore Cooper

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 to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

We broke into laughter—the kind that’s your only recourse when you feel like curling up in a fetal position and whimpering like a little girl.

Relativity

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 is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Lore of Running

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 them and what they represent.

Anthony Zinni

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

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 been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

A History of Reading

An act of terrorism is not an ideology, nor religion. It is the lack of hope, of opportunity and of love. When there is no recourse, no other way there is only insurrection. Understanding, compassion and respect for all life is what will save us all.

The Insurrectionist

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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 reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

Watchmen

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 to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

Sam Harris