Betray Quotes

• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

  Martin Luther

  People, Risk, Missionary

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.18, Anchor

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• There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

  Sean Lennon

  Love, Betrayal, Stories

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Tolerance, Betrayed

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

  William Penn

  Confidence, Betrayal, Betrayed

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.136

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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

  Betrayal, Lying, Soul

  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

  Betrayal, Mean, Careers

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• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Betrayal, People, Enemy

  "The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man".

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• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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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, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Betrayal, Freedom

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

  Judy Holliday

  Friendship, Betrayed, Lovers

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• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Betrayal

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Defense

  Camino Real (1953).

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• Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Transmit

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.10, Schocken

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• The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Betrayal, Our Words

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

  Livy

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Ends

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLIV, section 15,

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• Real friends stab you in the front.

  Jonathan Davis

  Friendship, Im Sorry, True Friend

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

  Mother Jones

  Betrayal, Play, Leader

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• Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

  James Madison

  Loss, Liberty, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.287

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• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  Steve Albini

  Artist, Thinking, Hubris

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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, Betrayal, Ambition

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

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• You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

  Anita Brookner

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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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, Betrayal, Betrayed

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

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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