Zitat des Tages über Verräter / Traitor:
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.
Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.