But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not… — Strabo Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image