It seems to me that the moment has come when the question…

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill

These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians,…

— Winston Churchill

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