Pretext Quotes

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

When the United States government tries to do things like expediting and making things easier for people, they create a pretext for letting in illegal immigrants. - Debra Burlingame

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

We condemn what happened today concerning the aggression against a brotherly state under the pretext that some organizations exist there. - Gerhard Schroeder

We condemn this. Israel left the Gaza Strip and has no right to return under any pretext such as the firing of missiles, which I also condemn strongly. - Mahmud Abbas

We ask Mr. Netanyahu to stop looking for excuses and pretexts for not going with the agreement. - Saeb Erakat