Treason Quotes

“Have you ever heard a five-year-old recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Arthur? It's creepy as hell. Their enunciation is perfect, but they have no idea what kind of promise they're making, of what's being called for. No one tells you until later that breaking your words amounts to treason. No one tells you until later that you can't take it back. I was having my own treasonous thoughts as I drove. They were half formed, but went a little like this: asking something like that from a person ought not to be allowed.”

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.”

“Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.”

“What I now ask of you is considered treason”

“Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor”

“Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.”

“While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!”

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

“The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.”