#pretext

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If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.


John Bright


#argument #balance #balance of power #never #peace

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


#away #cloudy #day #days #having

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement.


Ahmed Yassin


#built #close #demolished #destruction #gaza

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.


Robert Smithson


#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.


Jean-Francois Cope


#color #designate #developing #french #french people

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty

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


#destruction #evidence #gun #invading #iraq

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


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#living #needs #only #pretexts #reasons

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.


Carlo Goldoni


#them #use #wanting #wishes

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.


Antonis Samaras


#austerity #become #due #goes #imposition