Refuge Quotes
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
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The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
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The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
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Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
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However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
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The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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My library was - all libraries are - a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.
