Best Betrayal Thoughts
619 Betrayal quotes by 440 unique authors
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How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to…
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of…
— John Barth
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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.…
— David Cronenberg
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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
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I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be…
— Norman Finkelstein
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In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.
— Bruce Springsteen
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It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
— John Ralston Saul
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A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself.…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.
— Damon Lindelof
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with…
— Joseph P. Farrell
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
— William Hazlitt
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
— Honore de Balzac
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It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
— Tori Amos
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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
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
— Ralph Nader
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,…
— David McCullough
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The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have…
— Vaclav Havel
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People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely…
— Thomas Frank
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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
— Chris Marker
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You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
— Robert Sternberg
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a…
— William Graham Sumner
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Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
— David Frum
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May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what…
— E. Howard Hunt
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No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.
— Grover Norquist
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