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• One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

  Steven Dietz

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Deceit

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Betrayal, Rats

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• When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Betrayal, Want

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• Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

  James Madison

  Loss, Liberty, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.287

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• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

  John Mellencamp

  Betrayal, Years, Fans

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• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  Steve Albini

  Artist, Thinking, Hubris

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• You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

  Anita Brookner

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  Ed Harris

  Betrayal, Betrayed

  "Ed Harris’ ‘Westworld’ Turn Was A Perfect Late-Career Move For One of Our Best Actors - Career Watch" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. June 05, 2017.

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• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

  Mother Jones

  Betrayal, Play, Leader

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

  Suzanne Collins

  Relationship, Trust, Betrayal

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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• To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

  Publilius Syrus

  Betrayal, Self, Betrayed

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Betrayal, Betrayed

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• He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

  Theodor Adorno

  Betrayal, Past, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

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• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Home, Past

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• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Country, Cheating

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Children, Arrogance, Immigration

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.262, Transaction Publishers

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• You can never betray the people who are dead.

  Anita Brookner

  Betrayal, People, Sunbeams

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• ...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, People, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

  Tom Cochrane

  Betrayal, Integrity, Tragedy

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• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  Jean Genet

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Ecstasy

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Betrayal, Nerd

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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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