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Letter "R" » resorting
«One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Nations,
Peace,
Principles
| Keywords:
basic principle, confrontations, moral principle, reconciliation, resorting
«They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
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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 not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
hundreds, last half, last resort, outlook, patients, religious, resort, resorted, resorting, second half, that is to say, The Last Resort, The Second, treated
«The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
dreadful, obscene, rational, resorting, seditious
«If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
brick, brick in, extreme, Extreme Measures, hit, intentional, measures, offending, offends, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, The Brick, To the Extreme
«Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
conflict, crucial, evolve, method, nonviolence, oppression, resorting
«In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Authority,
Law and lawyers,
Truth
| Keywords:
accepted, divine law, good authority, in truth, lawgiver, remarkable, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to
«It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.»
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
«Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.»
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