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«But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.»
Author: Herbert Butterfield | Keywords: animosities, animosity, delighted, pretext, pretexts, righteousness
«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.»
Author: Kate Chopin (Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: cloudy, missed, misses, pretext, pretexts, served, shining
«We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian | Keywords: difficulty, excuse, pretext, pretexts, sloth
«Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.»
Author: Maurice Grimaud | About: Christmas | Keywords: celebrating, go by, hunting, hunting season, Open Season, pretexts, sleigh
«Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.»
Author: William Hurrell Mallock | About: Politics | Keywords: disguised, modified, modifies, modifying, power politics, pretext, pretexts, prudence, struggle
«However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.»
Author: Antonin Artaud | Keywords: distinguishing, fiercely, in practice, opposed, pretext, pretexts, prevents, respecting, stand for
«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.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: disturbances, pretexts
«Tyrants seldom want pretexts.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: pretexts
«Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | Keywords: feed, littleness, narrow, pretext, pretexts, The Vice, tyrannies
«Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | Keywords: French, French Revolution, pretext, pretexts, the French, The French Revolution, vanity
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