#resort

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

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#cabinet #candidates #difficult #efficiently #electorate

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#both #conscience #effective #engages #meek

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital #capital punishment #defensive #however #ignorance

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#does #eastern #eastern europe #europe #fact

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#bay #beautiful #course #hawaii #ocean

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#extreme #extreme poverty #feel #feel good #go

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #book #books #card #cash