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  • Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

    Wall   Real   People  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

    War   Fighting   Men  
    Eugene V. Debs' speech he gave across the street from a jail, where he had just visited three socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, June 1918.
  • Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

    Thinking   Years   Giving  
    Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster
  • Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

    Heart   Giving   Pretense  
    Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.147, Courier Corporation
  • The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

    People   Lines   Today  
  • I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

  • The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very rich, the super rich and the corporate sector. They can't get votes that way so they have to mobilize a different constituency. It's always been there, but it's rarely been mobilized politically. They call it the religious right, but basically it's the extreme religious population.

    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

    Lying   Book   Men  
    William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.53, Grove Press
  • A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library
  • The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

    Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.242, Routledge
  • High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

    Art   Finance   Burglary  
  • We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

  • ... 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.

  • I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

    Long   Kind   Havens  
    Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”
  • A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.

    Jobs   Trying   World  
    Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf
  • We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

  • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

    Lying   Equality   Hype  
    "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.
  • What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
  • Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

  • The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

    "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.
  • 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.

    Self   Giving   Advice  
    Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122
  • When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

  • As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

    War   Men   Despotism  
    Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855
  • Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

    Fraud   Pretense  
    "Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444". 1931.
  • And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

    Taken   Class   Plunder  
    Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.15, Lulu.com
  • Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

    Couple   Moving   Kids  
    "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.
  • 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.

    Men   Evil   Vices  
    Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail
  • My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

    Jesus   Men   Color  
    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

    Sex   Truth   Honesty  
    "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.
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