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• They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Betrayal, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.29, e-artnow

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• Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trust, Betrayal, Suffering

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

  Paul de Man

  Errors, Hygiene, Literature

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.163, Routledge

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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Betrayal, Men

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trust, Betrayal, Loneliness

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Betrayal, Fear, Ignorance

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• There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Laughter, Character

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Differences, Mexican, Chinese

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hurt, Truth, Fall

  "The Secrets of the Heart". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1947.

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• Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Pakistan, Afghanistan

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• A false tale often betrays itself.

  Aesop

  Lying, Tales

  Aesop (1968). “Aesop's Fables”, p.337, Library of Alexandria

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• But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.

  Yun Kouga

  Forgiving, Should, Ifs

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• A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

  James Madison

  Causes, Failing

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.189

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• There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite

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• We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Blood, Genealogy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

  Hideo Kojima

  Expectations, Fans, Want

  "Hideo Kojima Reflects On 25 Years Of Metal Gear". Interview with Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

  Antony Gormley

  Thinking, People, Way

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• If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Data, Ifs

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• Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

  Karen Russell

  Parent

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• The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

  Robyn

  Mean, Keeping Quiet, Safe

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• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

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• If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Proud, Talent

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

  Robert A. Burton

  Betrayal, Style

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• Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

  Sara Gruen

  Betrayal, Mind, Body

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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• We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.

  Steven Erikson

  Believe, Compassion, Knowing

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