#pretext

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#living #needs #only #pretexts #reasons

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#add #anything #bent #church #doing

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#another #calls #defending #even #freedoms

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. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#another #invent #make #party #pretext

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#because #danger #imagined #maintained #necessary

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

— Rumi

#celaleddin #inadequacy-of-words #inner #language #mawlana

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

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. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disturbances #fearful #mask #more #never