Herta Muller

For me, each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why I have, in every public statement I have made, demanded access to the secret files kept on me which, under various pretexts, have invariably been denied me.

German Novelist

Noam Chomsky

As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

American Activist

Nelson Mandela

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

South African Statesman

Muqtada al Sadr

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?

Iraqi Clergyman

Kim Il-sung

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

North Korean Leader

John Bright

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

British Politician

Leslie Stephen

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

English Author

Quintilian

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Roman Educator

Voltaire

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

French Writer

Edmund Burke

Irish Statesman

Pretext is used when someone hides their true intent behind a false reason.

Deceptive Intentions

Using pretext suggests intentional deceit, not just an accidental untruth.

Concealing Truth

A pretext is often seen as an insufficient or unworthy excuse for an action.

Unjustifiable Excuse

 more labor-intensive than just thriving standard metrics through using technological devices the very first week of dear data we chose a pretty cold and impersonal topic how many time do we check the time in a week we discover something about the other person's days through the pretext of my data

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 with misogyny, sexual violence and rape in this country, and pornography probably isn't helping with any of that. And a critically important problem to me was that for more than a century, the anti-pornography position had been used as a pretext

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