Treason Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  Barry Hannah

  Men, Thoughtful, Afternoon

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

  Phil Ochs

  Reason

  Song: I Ain't Marching Anymore

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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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• I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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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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• Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sin, Cosmic

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• I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Ignorance, Grandmother

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• He was not subordinate to God - Adam was walking as a god! What he said "went," what he did "counted"; and when he bowed his knee to Satan and put Satan up above him then there wasn't anything God could do about it because a "god" had placed Satan there. Adam, remember, was created in the god-class, but when he committed high treason he fell below the god-class.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Class, Knees, Remember

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• The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.

  James Lileks

  Christian, Religious, Kids

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• If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Country, Perspective, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Mean, Leaving

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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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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• Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Giving, Gentle

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Waiting, Temptation

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.10, Vintage

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• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Weakness, Common, Mercy

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Mean, Unity, Fusion

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