Betray Quote by Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

— Dalton Trumbo

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they…

— Sun Tzu

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and…

— Kim Il-sung

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,…

— John le Carre

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by…

— Vin Suprynowicz

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for…

— Max Lerner

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies…

— Michael Parenti

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under…

— Asha Rangappa

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

— Richard Perle

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my…

— George H. W. Bush

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each…

— Robert Teeter