Betray Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I figure... ...that the people are now more deeply conscious than ever before in history of the existence and functioning principles of universal, inexorable…

— Buckminster Fuller

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

— Tim LaHaye

It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a…

— John Stuart Mill

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and…

— Juan Goytisolo

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable character. Drama…

— Flannery O'Connor

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people —…

— E.M. Forster

“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed humans in…

— Francis S. Collins

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind…

— Anne Michaels

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,

— George Saunders

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis