Treason Quotes

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Disunion by force is treason.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.