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Quotes About Treason

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~ Jeff Rovin
Treason is always a conspiracy; it's too big a task for one man, and throughout history has been the work of groups.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime of denying the nation's financial system the proceeds of wealth. Such denial should actually be declared as treason, where opportunities to share the wealth for the benefit of the poor are wilfully denied.
~ Subramanian Swamy
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
Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.
~ Richelle Mead
You'd be surprised. Besides, they don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that." I scoffed. "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?" "No," said Abe, just before he turned away. "They execute traitors.
~ Richelle Mead
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
It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few. When concealing such knowledge strikes at life itself, the action becomes treason to the race.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
~ Robert Frost
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept and accept the end Of a love or a season?
~ Robert Frost
If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.
~ Zakir Naik
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
~ William Blum
The preconceived opinion which they brought to the Bench was evidently this: "Dreyfus has been condemned for the crime of treason by a Court-Martial; he is therefore guilty, and we, the Court-Martial, cannot declare him innocent; for we know that to proclaim the guilt of Esterhazy would be to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus.
~ Émile Zola
The fortunes of war, gentlemen," he said, "can be cruel and capricious. But that is not the same as treason.
~ Robert Harris
At best, the line between historical fact and govrnmental fiction is cloudy; in cases of treason it tends to vanish entirely.
~ Lacey Baldwin Smith
Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.
~ zweig stefan iii
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
~ Alan Moore
The accused were to be tried under a three-hundred-year-old Act. The Treason Act of 1351 had come into being during the reign of Edward III, its purpose to define and limit the number of offences classed as treason. It sill exists today. The
~ Don Jordan
After selecting and swearing in a hand-picked jury, the prosecution then lowered the bar for the amount of evidence necessary to convict. Traditionally, in a treason trial, a minimum of two witnesses was required to prove guilt. Bridgeman announced that one witness would now be sufficient.
~ Don Jordan
These lawyers agreed to charge the alleged regicides under the ancient law of treason, which made 'imagining' the death of the king or his heir punishable by death. 'Imagining' could cover a range of acts from direct involvement in a royal death to advocating it. They then agreed to drop the requirement under common law for two witnesses to prove an action. In the forthcoming trials one witness was to be deemed sufficient.
~ Don Jordan
Attainder was medieval England's great disincentive to treason. It was seen by many as a punishment equally dire as execution. As well as condemning the individual to a traitor's death, it condemned his bloodline to ruin by declaring all titles, property and estate held at the time of the treason forfeit to the crown. The
~ Don Jordan
the deep deficiency of perception created by patriarchy. Only in a world so thoroughly immersed in patriarchy would this whole farce of enforced reproduction (or enforced sterilization) even be possible. Men dictating to women when and how they shall give birth is treason.
~ Ani DiFranco
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.
~ Robert Frost