1,103 Quotes About Betrayal

  • Author Catharine MacKinnon
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    It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

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  • Author Cherrie Moraga
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    Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

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  • Author Greil Marcus
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    No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

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  • Author Greil Marcus
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    I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

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  • Author Joaquin Miller
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    O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

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  • Author John Mills
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    As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

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  • Author Kate Mosse
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    There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

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