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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 falling
was 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

And what do you say of lovers of wine ... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine — Plato

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

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

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ... — Paul Gauguin

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi

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

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

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad. — Kurt Andersen

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public. — Jim Marrs

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger. — Mikhail Tal

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary — Karl Marx

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

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth. — Thomas More

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

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. — Aesop

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

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. — Charb

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