Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine — Plato 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
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support… — Noam Chomsky 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
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on… — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been… — Walt Whitman 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
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
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
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many… — Vyacheslav Molotov 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 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
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
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
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