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
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. — Charb Copy Share Image
At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother. — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad. — Kurt Andersen 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
In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one. — Khem Veasna 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
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret… — Peter Abelard 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
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield 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
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
![“[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and foolish. They are manipulated, abused, and even drugged to such an extent that they can be used as murderers on the pretext of some crazy ideals or…” quote by Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cd/fethullah-gulen-7833_advantage_terrorism-is-formed-of-certain-fundament_1991265.jpg)
