Pretext Quotes

“They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.”

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

“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”

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

“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.”

“War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”

“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.”