Pretext Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under… — Boris Yeltsin
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our… — Peter Abelard
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing… — John Nelson Darby
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still… — Kim Il-sung
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or… — Hugo Grotius
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.… — George Bernard Shaw
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of… — John Calvin
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext… — Gottfried Leibniz
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in… — Gaston Bachelard
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither… — Pope Pius X
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced… — Albert Camus
The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For… — Strabo
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. — Ludwig Quidde
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a… — Isabelle Eberhardt
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. — Pope Francis
Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into… — Ray Comfort
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them… — Muqtada al Sadr
At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother. — John of Kronstadt
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. — Karl Marx
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the… — Mikhail Tal

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