Betrayal Quotes Page 2

Part 2 of the betrayal quotations list about deceit and cheating sayings citing Howard Zinn, Cato the Younger and Malcolm X captions

  • Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

    — Howard Zinn
    67
  • I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

    — Cato the Younger
    66
  • To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

    — Malcolm X
    64
  • Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles.

    We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

    — Enver Hoxha
    64
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  • The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

    — Tupac Shakur
    63

  • Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime.

    It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

    — Sherrilyn Kenyon
    63
  • Even though we are deceived, still believe.

    Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

    — Sun Myung Moon
    62
  • Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

    — Ray Davies
    62
  • Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

    — Joseph Story
    62
  • Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you will not run. You will remain silent and still; for this is when Love bears Her sweetest fruit: untouched Presence.

    — Mooji
    62

  • Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated.

    Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

    — Ziad K. Abdelnour
    62
  • This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

    — Matt Chandler
    60
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  • While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

    — Marianne Williamson
    58
  • The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

    — J. August Strindberg
    57
  • Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

    — Aesop
    57

  • Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

    — Richard Dawkins
    57
  • A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

    — Lawrence Durrell
    56
  • The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

    — August Strindberg
    56
  • By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

    — Huineng
    56
  • They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart.

    There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

    — Joseph Conrad
    53

  • Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

    — William Wordsworth
    53
  • The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

    — James Madison
    53
  • The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).

    — Tariq Ramadan
    53
  • May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

    — E. Howard Hunt
    52
  • 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
    51

  • If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

    — E. M. Forster
    50
  • Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

    — Milan Kundera
    50
  • Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

    — Hamid Karzai
    50
  • First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.

    — T.C. Boyle
    49
  • Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.

    — Stephanie Zacharek
    48

  • When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

    — Sylvia Plath
    47
  • A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

    — Titus Livius
    46
  • History is not the story of heroes entirely.

    It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

    — David McCullough
    46
  • Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

    — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
    46
  • The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

    — Noam Chomsky
    45

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