Refuge Quotes

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

I take refuge in my books.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.