Pretense Quotes

166 quotes by 149 authors

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land… — Lewis H. Lapham
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important.… — Margaret Guenther
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good… — Jack Donovan
Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting… — Mark Crispin Miller
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of… — George W. Bush
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values… — Pope Leo XIII
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense. — Publilius Syrus
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.… — Elisabeth Elliot
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and… — Peter L. Berger
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to… — Thomas R. Marshall
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — 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 under false pretenses,… — Tacitus
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow… — Edward Dahlberg
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as… — Robert Browning
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in… — Janos Kadar
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of… — Philip the Apostle

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