Betrayal Quotes - Page 19

• Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

  Agatha Christie

  Heartbreak, Hate, Believe

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love Is, Important, Tire

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

  David Simon

  Pain, Florida, Color

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

  Abraham Polonsky

  Loyalty, Brother, Hands

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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Home

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Hair

  "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

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• There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Philosophy, War, Mean

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Followers, Dangerous

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• I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Self Betrayal

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• When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey. It was a larger story using hockey as a window into the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, with friendships and betrayals, paranoia and oppression, and the meaning of sports to people and nations around the world, and how sports was used as a political tool.

  Gabe Polsky

  Sports, Fall, Hockey

  Source: collider.com

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• There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  People, Survival, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

  Stanley Cavell

  Communication, Self, Effort

  Stanley Cavell (2005). “Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  America, People, Profound

  "Florida's Cuban Americans Rejoice At U.S. Policy Overhaul" by Zachary Fagenson and David Adams, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Hurt, Pain, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2012). “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women”, p.53, Anchor

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• There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.

  Corey Flintoff

  Loyalty, Running, Real

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

  Steven Erikson

  Pain, Despair, Faces

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.426, Random House

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• A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Hate, Loneliness

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• Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

  James Connolly

  Mean, Labour Movement, Unity

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press

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

  Mother Jones

  Play, Leader, Betrayed

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  People, Justice, Focus

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

  Ovid

  Guilt, Looks, 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, Betrayed, Accomplished

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Cost, Hook, Alive

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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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, Ambition, Pride

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

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• For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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