“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
Walter Lippmann
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Jacques Derrida
“[Pretending is indeed the Washington game. Pretend independence, for instance. Recall House Speaker Sam Rayburn's attributed standard greeting to new Democrat members of Congress, per:] Remember, to get along, go along. ... There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
Will Rogers
“We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,”
Christopher Hill
“He gets along by dint of his intellect. There's no smoke and mirrors there. Bruce is Bruce. He doesn't pretend. I don't think he's driven by money or fame. I think what drives him is the intellectual challenge. He has one of the most inventive minds I've ever run across.”
Martin Lipton
