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Pretext Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and…
- Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It…
- It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using…
- It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
More Pretext Quotes
- She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on… — Kate Chopin
- If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda
- The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II
- I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international… — Vladimir Putin
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,… — Alexander Hamilton
- At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no… — Thelonious Monk
- It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill