- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Betrays Quotes
When trust breaks, in politics, love, or principle.
This collection uses "betrays" across very different registers: a citizen misled by an immoral leader, a lover who betrays love itself, and an artist whose complaint about limits betrays their own hubris. It connects naturally with Deceives quotes on similar breaks of trust.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020