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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head. (Pretense Quotes)
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense (Pretense Quotes)
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies. (Pretense Quotes)
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false. (Pretense Quotes)
I’ve lived with myself for a very long time, so I’m aware of what I look like. I’m under no false pretense that I’m a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it’s okay. (Pretense Quotes)
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. (Pretense Quotes)
Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons. (Pretense Quotes)
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. (Pretense Quotes)
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense (Pretense Quotes)
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there’s no pretense. We aren’t even trying to be artists or poets. (Pretense Quotes)
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised. (Pretense Quotes)
I’d been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart. (Pretense Quotes)
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one’s self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. (Pretense Quotes)
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind (Pretense Quotes)
Of the world and drudgery of business, seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence (Pretense Quotes)
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion (Pretense Quotes)
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide (Pretense Quotes)
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type (Pretense Quotes)
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods (Pretense Quotes)
... the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely (Pretense Quotes)
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand (Pretense Quotes)
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves (Pretense Quotes)
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive (Pretense Quotes)
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life’s subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities (Pretense Quotes)
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but I no longer knew him (Pretense Quotes)
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason (Pretense Quotes)
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education (Pretense Quotes)
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes (Pretense Quotes)
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties (Pretense Quotes)
Political freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying (Pretense Quotes)