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Pretension Quotes And Sayings
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Quotes And Sayings About Pretension
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
~By Mary Douglas ~
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
~By E. T. Bell ~
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
~By William Hazlitt ~
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
~By Alex Winter ~
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
~By Elias Hicks ~
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
~By Freda Adler ~
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
~By Angela Carter ~
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
~By Frederic Raphael ~
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
~By J. M. Roberts ~
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
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