Quotation Explorer - 'Pretext'

A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose; he doesn’t lay down conditions or use any kind of pretext to restrict people. This shepherd resembles Jesus and people will not even want to leave him. - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. - Friedrich Hayek
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded. - Friedrich Hayek
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield
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