Maxioms Pet

X
  •   14  /  24  

    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  6  /  6  

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  10  /  11  

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice read more

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

by H. L. Mencken Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  11  /  13  

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into read more

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

by Thomas Sowell Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  8  /  13  

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a read more

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

by Denis Diderot Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  29  /  39  

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  ( comments )
  15  /  16  

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.

by Jean De La Bruyere Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  6  /  6  

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, read more

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  31  /  42  

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

by Daniel Webster Found in: Murder Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  5  /  12  

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Society Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet