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To betray you must first belong

Harold Philby

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.

Steven Deitz

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

Tennessee Wellians

Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.

Erica Jong

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Robert Burton

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

Ayn Rand

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.

Linda Talley

Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John LeCarre

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver

Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John Le Carre

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jeab Genet

Each betrayal begins with trust.

Phish

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

Honore de Balzac

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

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

I hate the idea of causes, and 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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Blaise Pascal

O 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

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Hugh Prather

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Betrayal
Intrigue, machinations, machiavellian scheming. These are interesting plot points in novels, or in history class. They are the salacious bits that make stories interesting. When they happen in our own lives, however, they are devastating. They scar us, and some never recover. When we love someone, trust someone, we let them in completely, and when they turn around and betray us, whether it is cheating or a literal knife in the back, it is like a part of ourselves has turned on us. As if our heart simply decided to stop working just to spite us. It reveals our inner most weaknesses, and turns us into hurt animals who are prone to snap at every passer-by, refusing to give anyone else a chance to get in. When this happens to us, we carry that hurt forever, when we do it to others we carry the shame. In either case, we are debased, drawn backward on our path to out fundamental humanity.