False Allegiance Quotes

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

[Beware of those] who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Don't worry about appeasing the establishment. Don't acquiesce to an alleged power. Be with the people, not the establishment. The guy that's sitting next to you, that's who you got to beware. Judas was sitting right next to Jesus.

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don't be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.