Pretext Quotes

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

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.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

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

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

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... after the war is on.

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.

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.