Pretense Quotes

166 quotes by 149 authors

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot… — Bell Hooks
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival… — Rick Stein
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with… — Maya Angelou
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress… — Arianna Huffington
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we… — Thomas Jefferson
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. — Allen Drury
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will… — Alexander Hamilton
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being… — Eugene V. Debs
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. — Rumi
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman

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