Betrayal Quotes

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?

Each betrayal begins with trust.

Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.