Pretext Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretext Wicked
“The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil doings of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“As we tried to instill in each of our subjects over and over, WICKED is good.” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of… — Robert Lewis Hinkle Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...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,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
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