#pretension

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. ↗

— Alex Winter

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