#reacher

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward. ↗

— Lee Child

#honor #jack-reacher #service #duty

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#blood #called #christ #his #i

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#being #calling #defeat #fear #fear god

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friends #traitor #treachery #die

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#could #get #giving #great #money

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. ↗

— Vince Cable

#answers #humility #means #partnership #party

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#because #cowardly #dark #our #our people