Quotes About Pretext

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.

It turned out that the V-2 was not a means to liberate the human spirit from the chains of gravity; it was only a pretext for further enchainment.

yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

No sé por qué tejía tanto, yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Why, when all's said and done, do I have to think up a pretext for my every action? I mean, it really is torment, not a life!

Hell, why should I have to find a pretext for every single thing I do?

Text without context is pretext.

Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival. But they still liked to think of themselves as good people. Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate. A line in a holy book. The color of a person's skin.

Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate. A line in a holy book. The color of a person's skin. The brand of their magic. They were not in the habit of taking a second look or giving chances. Their fear was too great and their need to defend themselves too dire. They always lost at the end. Life was change. It would come to them, as inevitable as the sunrise, despite all their flailing

Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought.

In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

The Vandal King's special foibles were the conclusion of treaties and armistices which he did not intend to keep, and a large piratical disregard for the need of any pretext or justification for his raids

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it furnish the occasion or pretext for something truly barbarous and insane.

justified in the name of "security" like almost every cowardly idiocy before and since

Casus Belli. It means an incident that's used to justify a war...