#traitor

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable. ↗

— Diet Eman

#judgment #revenge #traitor #understanding #diet

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain. ↗

— Matthew Stover

#life #pain #slave #traitor #life

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #america #defending #difference #either

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. ↗

— Jean Genet

#cunning #deep #i #recognize #ruthless

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. ↗

— Jack London

#god #his #mother #traitor

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. ↗

— John Selden

#call #heels #his #man #tis

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ↗