Betrayal Quotes - Page 4

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

  Suzanne Collins

  Relationship, Trust, Betrayed

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

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• Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Hands, America, Justice

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• We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.

  Caroline Myss

  Christian, Loss, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Aug 19, 2014

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• The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

  Elaine Pagels

  Religious, Jesus, Stories

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• The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

  Ralph Steadman

  People, Done, Good Will

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• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heads Or Tails, Perfect, Coins

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Abdication, Patriot, There Comes A Time

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• Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

  Norman Jewison

  Favorite Subject, My Favorite, Subjects

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• The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.

  Franklin Littell

  People, Special, Church

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Men

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

  Elia Kazan

  Lying, Soul, Betrayed

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

  Richard Russo

  Mean, Careers, People

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• We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Fall, Past, May

  Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

  Jean Houston

  Stories, World, Betrayed

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving, Enemy, Weakness

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• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Mother, Independent

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• For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

  Charles Hazlewood

  Long, Enemy, Desire

  "I can get really extreme" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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• For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

  Douglas Alexander

  Winning, Foundation, Realism

  "Labour must do more to be credible on economy, says Douglas Alexander" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

  Josh Fox

  Air, Water, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Flattery, Fortune

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

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• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Males, Damnation, Female

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Kissing, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, War, Masturbation

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, War, Giving

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Soul, Weakness, Pleasure

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