#pretext

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

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

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

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ↗

— Quintilian

#excuse #our #pretext #sloth #under

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy