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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Rights, Hands

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

  Erica Jong

  Betrayal, Betrayed

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• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  Cao Cao

  Betrayal, World, Betrayed

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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  Jean Genet

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Ecstasy

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Betrayal, Nerd

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Terry Goodkind

  Betrayal, Hate, Leave Me Alone

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

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• All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Men, Betrayed

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1449, Book House

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• The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Betrayal, Lying, Men

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

  Ray Davies

  Money, Tired, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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• Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

  Tom Cochrane

  Betrayal, Integrity, Tragedy

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• Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Love Is, Fire

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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

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

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

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• If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Self, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.199, First Avenue Editions

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Wise, Women, Passion

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• Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

  Lauren Conrad

  Betrayal, Years, People

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• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Courage, Betrayal

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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• I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Betrayal, Body

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• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Freedom, Kissing, Anarchy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.148, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Heads Or Tails, Perfect

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

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