A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Rebecca West
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum
Bad literature is a form of treason.
Joseph Brodsky
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
Charles Foster Bass
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Harold Coffin
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins
Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson
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
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
I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.
Peter Brimelow
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
James Thomson
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby
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
Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo
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