Famous Quotes
12 Quotations with Pretext.
- 1. Herbert Butterfield: But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant ...
- 2. Denis Diderot: Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring ...
- 3. Honore De Balzac: Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and ...
- 4. Antonin Artaud: However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the ...
- 5. John Bright: If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, th ...
- 6. Ernest Renan: Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, ...
- 7. Edmund Burke: Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
- 8. Jose Ortega y Gasset: Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
- 9. Napoleon Bonaparte: Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
- 10. Kate Chopin: She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just ...
- 11. Albert Pike: A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, u ...
- 12. Naguib Mahfouz: I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of internat ...