Quotes About Recourse

memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation

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

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

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement—not replace—the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

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.

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 history.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

To presume to have recourse to power and taxation, besides being oppressive and unjust, implies further, the injurious supposition that the organized is infallible, and mankind incompetent. And

Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If you send it to a merchant and don't receive the goods, you have no recourse. This is cash. Treat it as such.

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

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day.

If we don't allow presidential impeachment, warned Benjamin Franklin, then the only recourse for abuse of power will be assassination.

Yes, of course. A matter of principle, was it? I've always said that matters of principle are the very last things that should provoke a man to seeking recourse in the law courts. The same might well be said of the recourse to violence.

Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.