Last Resort Quotes

Military intervention is to be considered when all else fails.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

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.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Only a god can save us.

War should be the last resort, not the first response.

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.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

I don’t care if it’s horse piss. It works!

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.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.