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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Voltaire

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Carlo Goldoni

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Ludwig Quidde

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Quintilian

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

Rumi

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Alexander Cockburn

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

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

Robert Smithson

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Friedrich Hayek

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

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Noam Chomsky

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Kim Il-sung

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

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Victor Davis Hanson

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