Quotes About Pretext

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.

On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds - or rather, where every day it's more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered 'economic' and what is 'political.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts

It is unfortunately none to well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another. There is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

Tú hiciste de mi vida un cuento para niños en donde naufragios y muertes son pretextos de ceremonias adorables

In a society that has fallen prey to anarchy the voracious appetite for persecution feeds on victims indiscriminately, as long as they are weak and vulnerable. The least pretext is enough. No one really cares about the guilt or innocence of the victim.

Whatever happened I would not, I dared not, become a hostage to grief. Anthony had been my sweet companion for seventeen years, but grieving for myself because he had died was neither tribute nor benefit to him and should not become the purpose or the focus of my existence. …If I allowed this, the power of death would not only have claimed Anthony in the grave but would also seize me – prematurely, or without sufficient pretext.

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 U.S. weapons.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

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 true designs.

dès lors que l'on a la technologie adéquate et un bon prétexte pour contrôler, on contrôlera.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

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 true designs.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.