Quotes Tagged "treason"

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

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.

Your treason shall be your poison!

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.