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«But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.»
Author: Herbert Butterfield
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animosities, animosity, delighted, pretext, pretexts, righteousness
«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.»
«Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.»
«However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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distinguishing, fiercely, in practice, opposed, pretext, pretexts, prevents, respecting, stand for
«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.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
destruction, gun, invades, invading, in the north, Iraq, Iraq and, Iraq In, Just One, Korea, Mass, North, North A, North by, North Korea, pretext, pretexts, smoking, The Smoking Gun, to the north, weapon
«Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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feed, littleness, narrow, pretext, pretexts, The Vice, tyrannies
«Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
French, French Revolution, pretext, pretexts, the French, The French Revolution, vanity