1,103 Quotes About Betrayal

  • Author Matthias Platzeck
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    Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

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  • Author Max de Pree
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    From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

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  • Author Nathan Parsons
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    I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

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  • Author Steven Pressfield
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    I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

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  • Author Theodore Parker
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    [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

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  • Author Elliot Robinson
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    If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

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  • Author J. K. Rowling
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    Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

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  • Author Richard Russo
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    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.

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