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• Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.

  Walter E. Williams

  Eye, Two, Government

  "Bogus Right" by Walter E. Williams, econfaculty.gmu.edu. February 8, 2006.

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• Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Traitor, Cases

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

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• All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

  Martin Luther

  Betrayal, Looks, Betrayed

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fall

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

  Charles Peguy

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Traitor

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• If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Betrayed, Faults

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• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Betrayal, Soul, Weakness

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• When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

  Publilius Syrus

  Betrayal, Doe, Flattery

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 277,

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• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

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• Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Betrayal, Forever, Bed

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• To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

  Malcolm X

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Betrayed

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• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Heartbreak, Betrayal

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Thee

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• Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

  J. K. Rowling

  Betrayal, Should Have, Done

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• To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Pride, Winning

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.146

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  Edmund White

  Teacher, Book, Gay

  Interview with Edmond White, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1994.

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• Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

  John Dryden

  Betrayal, Ice, Way

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• It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  David Levithan

  Trust, Betrayal, Mistake

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Imagination, Betrayed, Want

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Power

  Interview on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Betrayal, Character, Actors

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• Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

  John le Carre

  Love, Betrayal, Betrayed

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• The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Fighting, Essence, Risk

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• The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

  Heather Brewer

  Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal

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