Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alec Guinness

Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

Walter Benjamin

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

Aldrich Ames

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.

Aldrich Ames

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames

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.

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 our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Ada Leverson

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.

Wentworth Miller

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.

The proposal is an insult to all people who want to have democracy as early as possible. If we support the government, it would be a complete betrayal to our voters.

Cormac McCarthy

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

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Edwin Muir

We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds. / Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. / Look at it well. This was the good town once.

This reluctance to press Nigeria to hand over Taylor fosters a double standard that betrays the people of Sierra Leone,

Paul Simon

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

Dag Hammarskjold

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

To know you've got that disease and not even care, and it's just a total betrayal to all of the children and their families.

You know all the rules, and we're going to betray all those rules.

Henry Williamson

With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears - weak, whiskey tears - would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We do it mainly to stop a government that betrays people, that steals from its people under the guise of democracy.

Alice Meynell

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

Albert Camus

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Daniel Inouye

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Douglas Alexander

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

David Frum

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

David Cronenberg

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

Dalton Trumbo

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

Deepak Chopra

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

Anthony Minghella

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Alfred Bester

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Amy Tan

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

Amy Tan

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

Andre Breton

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.