“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”

“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”

“A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.”

“I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”

“Designers should only innovate as a last resort.”

“I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.”

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”

“I do not like weapons, Doctor; they are the last resort of faulty diplomacy.”

“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”

“Being a nation is, in the last resort, subjective; those who feel they are a nation and behave accordingly are one.”