Pretenses Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
— Omar N. Bradley
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
— Allen Drury
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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
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I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to…
— Anais Nin
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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
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Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
— Victoria Moran
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
— Confucius
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
— Billy Sunday
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
— John Tillotson
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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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