Betrayal Quotes - Page 22

• 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, Fall, May

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

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• There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Loyalty, Men

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.291, Paradise Publishing

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• My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Lying, Believe, Pregnancy

  "Oprah On Turning 60: ‘Every Day And Every Breath Is Magic’" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2014.

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Allowance, Foibles

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• Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

  Matthias Platzeck

  Past, Reality, People

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• I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

  Jim Crace

  Sex, Men, Intelligent

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• Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

  Wilkie Collins

  Mind, Brotherhood, Doubt

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.509

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• Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

  Terry Goodkind

  Hate, Leave Me Alone, Complacency

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.476, Head of Zeus

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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

  Past, Doe, Betrayed

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

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• The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

  Chris Hedges

  Pain, Dark, Reality

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.30, Nation Books

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• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

  Rich Mullins

  Sex, Book, Heart

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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Angel, Compassion, Light

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• Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Sex, Erotic, Innocent

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.228, Macmillan

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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

  Years, Fans, Records

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• My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

  Yunus Emre

  Heartbreak, Destiny, Thrones

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• Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

  Ginette Paris

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Suffering

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• I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Believe, Eye

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• Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

  James Cook

  Loyalty, Self, Interest

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Thinking, Opposites, Light

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• Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

  James Cook

  Chaos, Underestimate, Currency

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• The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

  Ira Berkow

  Athlete, Sadness, Careers

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• One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

  Sándor Márai

  Character, Excellence, Disloyalty

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• With me being in so many pain from when you have a betrayal from your best friend - who was my husband - and the girl got pregnant, I couldn't even get out of bed. The only thing that saved me was my stand-up. I would get on stage and just talk about stuff, and I made people laugh. A lot of women e-mail me and say, 'How do you smile? How do you laugh at something like this?' That's how I do it. I laugh because that's how I get through pain.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Girl, Pain, Husband

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

  Michael Totten

  Party, Mean, Sides

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