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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom Liberty Pretext Emergencies Individual Individual Liberty Safeguards Always Been Eroded Which

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail. Han Fei

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car. Nelson Mandela

General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition. Asma Jahangir

War Political Islam Aggressive India Able Pretext Adopting General More He Advancing Towards Waging Opposition Quell Version Dictator Any Afghanistan Repressive Hold Regime Stance Used Actor Orthodox

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. Jean-Francois Cope

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. John Nelson Darby

Simplicity Word Church Add Ought Bent Those Pretext Restoring Abstain Instructed Well Doing Anything Who Whole

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei

War Religion History Ideology Beginning Creation Design Other Evolution Willingly One Thing Weapons Pretext Given Civilization Divine Powerful Since Most Most Powerful Been Up Intelligent Human Human Beings Whether Certain Ethnicity Reasons Beings Each Ever Believes Thing

A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply. Naomi Klein

Financial State Rules Crisis Would Pretext Some Emergency Attack Exception Longer Likely Sort Terrorist Terrorist Attack Provide Where Crash Whether Declare Usual Large-Scale Apply

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in. Peter Lindbergh

Fashion Freedom You Women Thought Believe Statements Pretext Magazines About Point Could Point Of View Make Lots Get Just Them View Your Express Published Images

In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers. Robert Zubrin

Crime Rich Siege Thousands Pretext Give Russians More Seize Had He Putin Moscow Powers Himself Partners Buildings Got His Dictatorial Died Apartment Explode Then Even Bombs Second

In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression. Vladimir Putin

Law Other State Independent Security Security Council Pretext Only Could Council Force Method Line Sovereign Sovereign State Any Which Against Sanction Justify Might Aggression Use Used International International Law Interpreted

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati. Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Police Indefinite Minister Pretext Voice Prime Prime Minister Days October Coming Eight Sat Fast Raised

The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago. Krystal Ball

War Democracy Fight Long Power Abandoned Pretext Republicans

As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. Noam Chomsky

War Government World Decision Else Back Crimes Collapsed Syria Claims Obama Administration Pretext Threats Attack Support Fails Along Policeman Fallen When All Else Fails Standard International Credibility

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian

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