Treason Quotes - Page 8

• Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Dark, Blow

  "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Artist, Evil

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Eye, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.196, Penguin

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• If we really care about safety we would close down WikiLeaks. We would treat the people at WikiLeaks as enemy combatants. We would declare that the kind of thing this private did is treason. WikiLeaks is not a fun and games event. WikiLeaks undermines profoundly the ability of the United States to work around the world. Why would you, if you were a foreigner thinking about helping the United States, why would you confide anything to an American when you know that it could end up in The New York Times based on some leak?

  Newt Gingrich

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France and the United States, Wrangel showed to the Jews signs of his submission to them. Thereafter the Russian masses abandoned Wrangel as a traitor or as a comedian. It is impossible simultaneously to be an auxiliary of the Jew and an enemy of the Bolsheviki who are Jews. Be it incoherence or treason, Wrangel deserved the same fate as Denikin and he got it.

  Boris Brasol

  Real, Fate, Order

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

  Elizabeth I

  Fear, Causes, World

  Speech to Parliament, 1586, in William Camden 'Annales rerum anglicanum' (1615) bk. 3

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• The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I think the Greens in this upcoming state election should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power. It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it.

  Clive Palmer

  Lying, Thinking, Australia

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• The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Eye, Pluralism Is, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver (1948). “Ideas Have Consequences”

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• But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Voice, Church, May

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• To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Suffering, Age, Body

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.747, Tor Books

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• But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

  John Knox

  Law, Sin, Persons

  "The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men". Book by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303, August 13, 2011.

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• Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

  John Knox

  Kings, Names, May

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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• Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
  dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

  Roger Casement

  Patriotic, Fate, Pride

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• 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.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Design, Sides, Thread

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Sacrifice, Guilt, Duty

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”

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• The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Oscars, Snowden, Subjects

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• I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.

  Louis MacNeice

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.259, Faber & Faber

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• Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Kings, America, Terrorism

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013

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• There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Gun, Government, Ideas

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• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

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• Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.

  Sefi Atta

  Kings, Children, Betrayal

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• Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cutting, Thinking, Space

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