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- 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… — 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… — 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… — Rick Stein
- Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,… — 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… — Maya Angelou
- Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah
- The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle
- It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force… — Arianna Huffington