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The government is becoming the family of last resort. -- Jerry Brown
The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.' -- Alan Dershowitz
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. -- Victor Hugo
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. -- David Bowie
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. -- Roy Barnes
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. -- Samantha Power
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. -- Roger Mahony
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
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 inadequate. -- Arlen Specter
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 be contested. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. -- Dennis Cardoza
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 consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. -- King Hussein I
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 better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. -- Donald Rumsfeld
My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children. -- Jonas Gahr Store
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. -- Carl Jung
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. -- John Perkins
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 done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. -- Alan Dershowitz
War should always be the absolute last resort. -- Joe Biden
Controversy is a last resort for the talentless. -- Criss Jami
Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness. -- Erica Jong
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. -- Tamora Pierce
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all. -- Herbert Butterfield
When respect becomes scarce the last resort is the respect of one's self -- Constance Chuks Friday
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. -- Cornel West
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort. -- Gerald Celente
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. -- Dorothy Dunnett
Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. -- George Osborne
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. -- Arthur Ashe
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. -- Will Rogers
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. -- Albert Einstein
Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same. -- Brian K. Vaughan
Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort! -- J. K. Rowling
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all. -- Hans Kung
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort. -- Asne Seierstad
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. -- Wesley Clark
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. -- Oswald Chambers
grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us. -- George W. Bush
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public. -- Lora Leigh
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. -- Paul Johnson
Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort. -- Andrew Ashling
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Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed. -- Julia Hill
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. -- Aldous Huxley
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right. -- Adlai Stevenson I
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort. -- Mario Savio
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something. -- Alfred de Musset
I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort. -- Tariq Ramadan
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. -- C. S. Lewis
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations. -- Paul Klee
A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it. -- Sylvia Plath
I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted -- Ally Carter
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
The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely. -- Louise Bogan
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. -- Aldous Huxley
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
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. -- Aldous Huxley
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words. -- Aristotle
There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems that I have observed with it over the years in plant growth experiments. -- Steven Magee
In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills. -- Adolf Hitler
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. -- Cornel West
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one. -- Jonathan Swift
A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love. -- Sigmund Freud
A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort. -- Kristina Schroder
There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives. -- Michael Josephson
I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security. -- Ronald Reagan
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries. -- Arthur Ashe
From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort. -- Nelson Mandela
Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort. -- Antony C. Sutton
Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la. -- Robert Plant
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort. -- Renata Adler
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures. -- Evan Davis
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve. -- John Gummer
Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. -- Richard Bach
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they become powerless. The strike is therefore not a breakdown of collective bargaining-it is the indispensable cornerstone of that process. -- Paul Clark
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort. -- Cornel West
The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense. -- Johann Lamont
At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort. -- Rick Ross
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort. -- Richard M. Nixon
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. -- Franklin Graham
Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce
People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to. -- Mickey Kaus
Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation. -- Jessy Schram
My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home. -- Jessy Schram
Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort. -- Louis MacNeice
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 a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. -- Michael Musto
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
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.' -- Linwood Barclay
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. -- Patrick Henry
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? -- J. G. Ballard

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