Pretensions Quotes

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.