Betrays Quotes

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one`s cause.

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.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

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.

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.

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.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.