Betrayal Quotes - Page 20

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

  Mother Jones

  Play, Leader, Betrayed

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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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• 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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• 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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• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Men, Soul, Suffering

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Fighting, Opposites

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Thinking, People, Greed

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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Men, Mind, Body

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Religious, Symbolism, Tree

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• Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Saws, Firsts

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• There's a reason [Donald]Trump and [Ted] Cruz are one and two and that they take nearly 50 percent of the Republican electorate away in these polls because there's real palpable anger out there and frustration and a feeling of betrayal.

  Sean Hannity

  Real, Frustration, Two

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

  Corey Flintoff

  Revenge, Turkeys, Language

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Two, White

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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Hands, Voice, Long

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• I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Spirit, Clock

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Legacy, Dresses, Reunion

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• The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Moving, Expression

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• Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Loneliness, Home, Smell

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• Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

  Paul Valery

  Kind, Fidelity, Translations

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• Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.

  Anna Kavan

  Love, Blood, Enemy

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• Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

  Les Parrott

  Backstabbers, Wrong Person, Wrong Time

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

  Rachel Caine

  Hurt, Enemy, Myrnin

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.80, Allison & Busby

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Keeping Promises, Deception

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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