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“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
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“We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.”
Jon Stewart quotes (American Comedian and Actor, b.1962)
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“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.”
Kate Chopin quotes ( Writer, Poet, Novelist and Author, 1851-1904)
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“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”
Marcus Fabius Quintilian quotes

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“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 quotes (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850)
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“Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“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.”
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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.”
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“In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, our pleasure, our consideration. Thus the dead have the”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“It would seem that even self-love may be the dupe of goodness and forget itself when we work for others. And yet it is but taking the shortest way to arrive at its aim, taking usury under the pretext of giving, in fact winning everybody in a subtle and de”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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pretext synonyms: guise, pretence, pretense, pretenses, stalking-horse.

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