Pretext Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. — Leslie Stephen
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois… — Jean-Francois Cope
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. — Charb
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed… — Charles Caleb Colton
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has… — Jacob G. Hornberger
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or… — Arthur Koestler
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... — Paul Gauguin
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,… — Eugene Delacroix
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will… — James Madison
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A… — Alphonse de Lamartine
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their… — Denis Diderot
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who… — Steven Pinker
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. — Quintilian
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. — Robert Smithson
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.… — Jon Stewart
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. — Voltaire
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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