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The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
— Voltaire
In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.
— Khem Veasna
You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
— John F. Kerry
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
— Ludwig Quidde
Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his fallingwas only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Give no poor fool the pretext to think ye are claiming knowledge of what no mortal knows.
— C.S. Lewis
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime ...
— Lord Acton
Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.
— Vladimir Lenin
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
— Georges Braque
It had been a pretext for the papers to remind the
— Robert Galbraith
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
— Luc De Clapiers
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.
— John Of Kronstadt
The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.
— Evo Morales
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
— Leslie Stephen
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
— Saint Basil
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
— Randal Marlin
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
— Pope Francis
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
— Alexandra David-Neel
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
— Graciela Iturbide
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength
— Paulo Coelho
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ...
— Paul Gauguin
Text without context is pretext.
— Walter Martin
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
— Publilius Syrus
There are only do and don't; can or can't is just an excuse.
— M.F. Moonzajer
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.
— Kurt Andersen
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
— Antonis Samaras
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
— Quintilian
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
— Charles Dickens
The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.
— Michael Pare
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.
— Robert M. La Follette
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
— Honore De Balzac
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
— D. A. Carson
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
— William Hurrell Mallock
