Quotes About Traitor

I thought you said you loved me." "I can't love a traitor." "I'm not a traitor." "You're on the wrong side." "There are no damned sides!" "Then swear!" she told him suddenly. "Swear that you would be on the right side—" "What would the right side be, Kiernan? Tell me that, please, will you?

Don't forget that before he turned traitor, Benedict Arnold was a hero of the Revolution. He betrayed everyone he knew—everyone he had fought beside, everything he had fought for—not for money or ideals but out of pride. Injuries and insults eventually became too much for him to bear.

Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how glad he was that the school had produced neither "a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss." On hearing that coupling, Kennedy jumped from his chair. "How dare you compare the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" and left the room. As for his father, the very thought

Don't you feel bad for nominating him, after what he did, leading the vampaneze against us? No, Vancha said bluntly. I don't approve of his actions, and if I'd been at Council, I wouldn't have spoken up on his behalf. But he was following his heart. He acted for the good of the clan. Misguided as he was, I don't think Kurda was a real traitor. He acted poorly, but his motives were pure.

What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must hang them? Lady Macduff Why, the honest men. Son: Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hang up them.

When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors

On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!

we must not give way to a lust for plunder until the enemy is completely scattered. The man who's too quick to plunder is no longer a man. He turns himself into a beast of burden and ought to be treated like a traitor.

I will have no alien interfere with my rule, and I will allow no traitor to shelter behind the cross of Christ.

Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce—he was a clown; we all know that.

I think he prefers 'traitor mage housecleaning' to diplomacy," I observed. Mychael took a healthy swig of his own wine. "Don't we all? It's certainly easier to know when you're making progress.

I am somewhat proud of this, Mab's cold voice said. To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.

Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.

As Haidt writes in The Righteous Mind, the moral foundation of loyalty helps groups cement bonds and form coalitions. It shows "who is a team player and who is a traitor, particularly when your team is fighting with other teams.

For instance, if there is a difference of opinion with regard to science or genetics, it must be decided by the "leader." This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

Bun.  Sir, said I, Wickliffe saith, that he which leaveth off preaching and hearing of the Word of God for fear of excommunication of men, he is already excommunicated of God, and shall in the day of judgment be counted a traitor to Christ.

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Therefore Jerome — whether it is his own judgment or the opinion of others — says that Moses did not want to make mention of Simeon because the traitor Judas was to be born from him;28 and even up to this time the tribe of Simeon is the most contemptible among these dregs of the Jews.

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

The former Philadelphia belle's evolution from the fragile, compliant bride fo the American traitor to a restrained wife was remarkable enough, but what followed was even more surprising: a revelation of strengths Peggy long held in reserve. Her transition was born of necessity.

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.

I'd have to be a sociopath to be a traitor. I'm a psychopath. There's a difference, believe me. Psychopaths believe in something, even if that something's not actually real." "Where's