#treason

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ↗

— James Thomson

#mankind #treason

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. ↗

— John Harington

#dare #doth #never #none #prosper

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. ↗

— King Hassan II

#arms #contrary #cowardly #down #his

Cynicism is intellectual treason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#intellectual #treason

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#greatest #last #reason #right #temptation

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#brilliance #detecting #fooled #high #i

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. ↗

— John Harrington

#dare #doth #never #none #prosper

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #any #considered #deceiving #great

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#atonement #baseness #cruelty #deed #deep