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Recourse Quotes

Recourse Definition  
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh

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.
Octavio Paz

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

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Lord Chesterfield

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.
E. Howard Hunt






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