Pretext Quotes
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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.
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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. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line...
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Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
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When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
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The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
