Pretexts Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
— Edmund Burke
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
— Carlo Goldoni
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,…
— Winston Churchill
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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…
— Noam Chomsky
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Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,…
— Thomas Merton
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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
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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
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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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
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,…
— Winston Churchill
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Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should…
— Brennan Manning
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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
— Alexander Cockburn
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Who Wrote These Pretexts Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Pretexts Quotes as follows: