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Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.


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WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; tr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS It's called 'Cry Traitor,' which I may just let the Internet take because it fits with the theme of ...
STEPHEN STILLS Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to ...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Enemy always has a Fake Reason, Traitors always has Real Treason
SUDIP SENSHARMA The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potent...
GRAHAM GREENE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel
BIBLE Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.
BRIAN JONES I may be a traitor to yours, but I'm the founder of my own cause.
MARIO RINALDO ENZO ADAMS A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was...
LYSANDER SPOONER A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
GEORGE III A traitor deserves no mercy.
PC GODIYAL "PARCHET" 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
JOHN SELDEN Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
ROBINSON JEFFERS If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have ...
CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU 'Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels
JOHN SELDEN Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER I love treason but hate a traitor.
JULIUS CAESAR He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
PLUTARCH A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small ...
DENNIS PRAGER There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that truste...
LORD BYRON He was a genuine defector. Yurchenko was a real traitor,
OLEG KALUGIN A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you...
RICHARD STANLEY I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
BASSEM YOUSSEF The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate wit...
TERRY PRATCHETT A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDON The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class
JACK LONDON Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much les...
RICK RIORDAN Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a ...
ANNE RICE I get very impatient with church people who say there's something wrong with having doubts, because ...
ADRIAN PLASS Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one wh...
AMBROSE BIERCE I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
ALEX CHIU To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
JACQUELINE CAREY For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.
JOHN HOOLE Learning is everywhere. Paying attention is key to learn something every day. The gravestone will be...
LILY CHATTERJEE I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out...
MONICA CROWLEY Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succee...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It was a gigantic betrayal. She is indeed a traitor.
DIANE RAGSDALE Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse ca...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. A...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My f...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You'...
NOAM CHOMSKY Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
SAMUEL DANIEL Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with...
J.K. ROWLING You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter wh...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I will forgive, but I will never trust again the person whom I considered a friend but unexpectedly ...
BRADLEY B. DALINA The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.
PAUL GRAY (The tenants) trash that place every week and you'll get a write-up from the city every week. It is ...
CHARLES KIRBY I have to be proud to be a part of an obnoxious nation; else I am a traitor.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that opp...
CHINUA ACHEBE I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and n...
JOHN BUNYAN When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a...
GEOFFREY RUSH To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go w...
OLIVIER MEGATON Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
JOHN BOLTON Three months after our blessed attack against the main infidel West, especially America, and two mon...
OSAMA BIN LADEN Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security i...
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
LILLIAN HELLMAN I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which se...
CHADWICK MOORE This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER That was much worse than expected, and the underlying numbers look weak across the board.
MICHAEL EVERY This kind of figure is bound to generate negative headlines for New Zealand. Higher oil prices also ...
MICHAEL EVERY The moderation is certainly very slow in arriving, even allowing for the usual lag in data, and thes...
MICHAEL EVERY They are concerned about inflation first and foremost but they already know that was going to happen...
MICHAEL EVERY With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to ...
MICHAEL EVERY Redwood, in my opinion, was one of the smartest fishermen around and a scientific fishermen.
DICK EVERY The residential housing market is well off its peak now. The Reserve Bank remains on hold for now wi...
MICHAEL EVERY The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but...
MICHAEL EVERY Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk.
DICK EVERY I played bad this afternoon. I don't even want to talk about the morning right now. I putted badly. ...
MATT EVERY I've been working really hard lately. Normally, it just comes to me pretty easy, but this is differe...
MATT EVERY And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what...
EDWARD FITZGERALD The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanc...
CHARLES HODGE passing through the security measures that are the pride of that lackey of the English, the traitor ...
AL-QAEDA I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I find it funny how the people that scream how wrong homosexuality is, are the same people that only...
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WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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