All 25 Uses
treason
in
Atlas Shrugged
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- No. Some day, you'll know what treason I'm committing right now, but ....Don't ever buy any d'Anconia Copper stock.†
Chpt 2.2 *treason = an act of betrayal
- It's treason to shield a deserter!†
Chpt 2.8
- It's economic treason!†
Chpt 2.8
- She shuddered, closing her eyes, feeling as if she were guilty of double treason, feeling as if she were suspended in space between this valley and the rest of the earth, with no right to either.†
Chpt 3.2
- Then she heard her own voice asking suddenly, involuntarily, and she knew that this was the treason she had wanted to escape, "Do you permit any communication with the outside world?"†
Chpt 3.2
- No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't be treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.†
Chpt 3.2
- "I do not expect to be insulted by disloyal young punks with treasonable motives," said Dr. Stadler loudly.†
Chpt 3.3treasonable = able to be punished as an act of betrayalstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- Were I to surrender to pain and give up in futile regret that my own error has wrecked my past-that would be the act of final treason, the ultimate failure toward that truth I regret having failed.†
Chpt 3.3treason = an act of betrayal
- "Hank," she whispered, "I don't think I can explain it, but I feel that I have committed no treason, either to you or to him."†
Chpt 3.3
- You've never suffered, the eyes were saying with self-righteous scorn-while he remembered the sensation of proud chastity with which he had fought through those moments, refusing to surrender to pain, a sensation made of his love, of his loyalty, of his knowledge that joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.†
Chpt 3.5
- This was the act he had then called treason, and this was the man he had rejected in order to go on serving the men confronting him now.†
Chpt 3.6
- If those men had vanished, if that world was gone, if his mills had ceased to serve his values-then the mills were only a pile of dead scrap, to be left to crumble, the sooner the better-to be left, not as an act of treason, but as an act of loyalty to their actual meaning.†
Chpt 3.6
- The newspapers, like puppets on tangled strings, were shouting with the same belligerence and on the same dates: "It is social treason to ascribe too much importance to Hank Rearden's desertion and to undermine public morale by the old-fashioned belief that an individual can be of any significance to society.†
Chpt 3.7
- It is social treason to spread rumors about the disappearance of Hank Rearden.†
Chpt 3.7
- It is social treason to cast an unpatriotic light upon the tragic loss of Hank Rearden.†
Chpt 3.7
- I'll put the whole profession on trial for sabotage, desertion and treason!†
Chpt 3.7
- You have reached the blind alley of the treason you committed when you agreed that you had no right to exist.†
Chpt 3.7
- At the end of your road of successive betrayals, stripped of weapons, of certainty, of honor, you commit your final act of treason and sign your petition of intellectual bankruptcy: while the muscle-mystics of the People's States proclaim that they're the champions of reason and science, you agree and hasten to proclaim that faith is your cardinal principle, that reason is on the side of your destroyers, but yours is the side of faith.†
Chpt 3.7
- Be it only a penny you will not miss or a kindly smile he has not earned, a tribute to a zero is treason to life and to all those who struggle to maintain it.†
Chpt 3.7
- This dismal wreckage, which is now your world, is the physical form of the treason you committed to your values, to your friends, to your defenders, to your future, to your country, to yourself.†
Chpt 3.7
- But it's treason!" cried Eugene Lawson.†
Chpt 3.8
- She's talking pure treason!†
Chpt 3.8
- But it's treason, ruin, disloyalty, selfishness and big-business propaganda!†
Chpt 3.8
- It was the way he held her, the way he kissed her mouth that made her feel as if every step she had taken, every danger, every doubt, even her treason against him, if it was treason, all of it were giving her an exultant right to this moment.†
Chpt 3.8
- It was the way he held her, the way he kissed her mouth that made her feel as if every step she had taken, every danger, every doubt, even her treason against him, if it was treason, all of it were giving her an exultant right to this moment.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(treason) betraying someone or something -- typically betraying one's own country
(in this context, to betray is to not be loyal--often by helping enemies) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)