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Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

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.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

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.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

Text without context is pretext.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

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

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

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

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.

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

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.