Betrayal Quote by Zadie Smith

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

— Anonymous

“We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.”

— George R.R. Martin

“You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one…

— Julie Bertagna

“To hold the key is not just to possess power, but to carry the weight of responsibility for someone else’s surrender.”

— Kemal Onur Güneş

“If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself”

— August Heckscher

“One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“It is not betrayal of feeling, but avoidance of duty, that constitutes weakness.”

— George MacDonald

“There are many ways to turn someone to betray their country - money, ideology, compromise and ego work best. If they don't respond to…

— Khalid Muhammad

“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can…

— F. Sionil José

“Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.”

— Amit Kalantri

“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including…

— Hermann Hesse