“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
William Hurrell Mallock
“In case anyone intends to raise a pretext, they are just after seeking pretexts (to refer Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council),”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“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.”
Kate Chopin
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
Edmund Burke
“Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as a pretext to insult a religion.”
Yuri Thamrin
“I'm really confused after Mr. Sharon's statement. Is he seeking a pretext for not negotiating, because he said he can't negotiate with us without having a precondition, and then he said we must come to the negotiations without precondition, so he's conditioning us and asking to come into negotiations from scratch.”
Saeb Erakat
“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
Voltaire
