Betray Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Betray Men Should
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but… — Novalis Copy Share Image
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.” — Curtis Craddock Copy Share Image
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To… — Prince Ea Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
