#refuge

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#arctic #budget #debate #discussion #drill

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

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

— Leonard Cohen

#refuge #sense #sleeping #superiority #world

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. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#miserable #refuge #sex

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. ↗

— Max Frisch

#doomed #final #man #refuge

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. ↗

— George Galloway

#advocate #dr #english #great #i

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? ↗

— Franz Kafka

#flees #how #refuge #take #unless

It's 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. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#given #going #i #i think #idiotic