Best 183 quotes in «betrayed quotes» category

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

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).

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

We are betrayed by what is false within

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

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.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.