Pretenses Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
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
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
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. — Allen Drury
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
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
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
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran
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
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career… — Colin Powell
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on… — 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 arts. — 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 advantage openly, frankly… — 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 in Iraq on… — Ron Fournier
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is… — Eric Hoffer
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with… — Jim Morrison
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been… — Anchee Min

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