Resorts Quotes - Page 10

• But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

  Athenagoras of Athens

  Christian, Character, Historical

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

  Albert Camus

  People, Suffering, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

  Craig Cook

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Police, Drug

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• Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

  Christopher Dawson

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Fall

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.120, CUA Press

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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 mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Politics

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• It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Passive Resistance, Peaceful

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• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Book, Dope

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• I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

  David Duchovny

  Beautiful, Three, World

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Interview - THE X-FILES: I Want to Believe". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2008.

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• War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Hatred, Lasts

  Interview with Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio, November 5, 2003.

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• Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, People, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.391

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

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• It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Church, Corruption

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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• Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Survival, Church

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• War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Europe, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Life, People, Religion

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• But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

  Arundhati Roy

  Women, Struggle, Heart

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

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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

  Military, Feelings, Lasts

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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

  Peace, Military, War

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  Hans Kung

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

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• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Rights

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Tactics, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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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 first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

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• The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lasts, Court, Supreme

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