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- Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken
- In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus
- Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius
- If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday
- In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of… — Gideon Raff
- High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne
- The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own… — H. L. Mencken
- Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged… — Ron Fournier
- They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus
- Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz
- I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. — Janet Frame