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- 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,… — Dean Koontz
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — 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… — George W. Bush
- I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign… — 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… — 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… — Colin Powell