The fight against drug
The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases. Evo Morales
Pretext
In Iraq, [American administration]
In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells. Evo Morales
I have told myself
I have told myself a hundred times that painting – that is, the material thing called a painting – is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator. Eugene Delacroix
Never has any one
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has … Read more
[Censors are] people with
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations… They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses. Ernest Jones
History is nothing but
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. Emile M. Cioran
In the first place,
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. Elihu Root
I dislike The Exorcist,
I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don’t think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think … Read more
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. Edmund Burke
\’Emergencies\’ have always been
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Friedrich August von Hayek