By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another. — Saint Basil 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
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will… — Plato Copy Share Image
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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