Quotes about betrayal
betrayal rome violence
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. Friedrich Durrenmatt
betrayal betrayed betraying-friends
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. Malcolm X
betrayal giving police
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. Mahatma Gandhi
betrayal philosophy war
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts. Jacob Bronowski
betrayal depth exhibitions
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. Enoch Powell
betrayal mean labour-movement
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted. James Connolly
betrayal chaos underestimate
Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement. James Cook
betrayal sadness joy
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. Stephen King
betrayal animal betrayed
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. Taylor Caldwell
betrayal flesh pay
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.
betrayal nice princess
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself. Stephenie Meyer
betrayal party guilt
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed. Stefan Zweig
betrayal shapes danger
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. William Wordsworth
betrayal blow men
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
betrayal character actors
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. Sarah Bernhardt
betrayal emotional musician
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music. Tori Amos
betrayal games issues
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. Raymond E. Feist
betrayal mean careers
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. Richard Russo
betrayal thug chance
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. Tupac Shakur
betrayal sick different
Betrayal would be a different sort of sick. Robin McKinley
betrayal responsibility community
I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself Robert Zubrin
betrayal mind body
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it Sara Gruen
betrayal good-luck bad-luck
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. William Feather
betrayal brotherhood doubt
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca. Wilkie Collins
betrayal rats betray
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat. Winston Churchill
betrayal trying betrayed
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back. Yukio Mishima
betrayal secret violent
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. William Hazlitt
betrayal stupid responsibility
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. Wendell Berry
betrayal fall angel
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly? Salman Rushdie
betrayal two optimism
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
betrayal thinking sight
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.
betrayal people done
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. Ralph Steadman
betrayal thinking government
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.