“He would rob some sex workers who he 'lifted' on the pretext of seeking sex and he sometimes also raped his victims.”
David Magara
“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
“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
“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
“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
William Hurrell Mallock
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
Edmund Burke
“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
Voltaire
