'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests! — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother. — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
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