Quotes about Pretexts

Victor Davis Hanson

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

Henry Adams

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

Alexander Pope

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

David Draiman

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Glenn Greenwald

Stopping terror is clearly a pretext.

Miguel de Unamuno

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Sa'd Al-Din Ibrahim

The Arab leaders and tyrannical regimes have used Israel as a pretext. True, Israel has exhausted many Arab resources, but nevertheless, I say that the regimes have exhausted the resources of their own countries, have smuggled and stolen more than the war against Israel has cost us.

The Arab Countries are notoriously corrupt and undemocratic. Huge amounts of national resources are looted by the politicians in power and their supporters. Before Israel existed, the Jews and Arabs of Palestine both had a standard of living that was considerably less than that of Egypt. The Palestinians under the Palestine authority after 50 years have a standard of living that is still less than that of Egypt. But the Israeli citizens have a standard of living that is now far greater then the other Palestinians, but many times greater than Egypt. And that goes for the Israeli Arabs living in a free democracy also; they too are far better off than their non democratic co-religionists. See {588744}.

Oliver Cromwell

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

This problem exists even in democracies where administrations often seek to expand their power and use or create a crisis to justify the expansion of their powers.

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