<Li> Towards the end of Joseph Heller's Catch - 22, Colonels Korn and Cathcart equate fighting for their country with fighting for the benefit of the two of them . Korn tells the protagonist Yossarian: "You're either for us or against your country . It's as simple as that ." A reviewer of Catch - 22 found this "flawless" logical indulgence by the commanding colonels to be comparable to Heller's parody of Charles Erwin Wilson's statement, often paraphrased as, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country". </Li> <Li> In a 1912 edition of John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, an advertisement for The Clarion, a socialist newspaper, used the phrase to attract those interested in the debate on socialism . </Li> <Li> In the movie Ben - Hur, the protagonist meets with his childhood friend Messala . He has barely said hello to Ben - Hur when he is dunning him for the names of those Jews who are speaking out against the Roman occupation . Ben - Hur refuses to act as informer, and Messala utters, "You're either with me or against me". </Li> <Li> In Act III of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Deputy Governor John Danforth states, "But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there is no road between ." </Li>

Either with me or against me or in my way