Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when…

“A society that is fearful of self-examination and exploration can't believably say that it trusts in God. Nor can it believably say that it…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away.…

— John Kennedy Toole

Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S.…

— Cornel West

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

— Paulo Coelho

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds…

— Mark Twain

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

— Leon Trotsky

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

— Guy Sajer

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of…

— Robert Lewis Hinkle

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out…

— Richard Whately

“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance, and in…

— Victor Hugo

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an…

— Jose Marti

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky