Betrayal
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Betrayal (or treachery) is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations. Often betrayal is the act of supporting a rival group, or it is a complete break from previously decided upon or presumed norms by one party from the others. Someone who betrays others is commonly called a traitor or betrayer. Betrayal is also a commonly used literary element and is often associated with or used as a plot twist.
Quotes
[edit]- Betrayal brings its perpetrator to the lowest depths, and he loses all trust among people.
- A loyal dog is better than a thousand treacherous friends.
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah’s statements about Betrayal
- 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
- The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
- Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt.
- I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
- Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
- Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
- Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream (1970), Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 19.
- Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one’s people you serve, or your country.
- Nguyen Khanh, as quoted in "A Bag of Earth, A Promise To Keep" (28 April 2005), Viet Weekly
- Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
- Anthony Minghella, The English Patient (1996); based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje.
- Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003).
- Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (2003).
- On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, noting Italy's declaration of war against France on that day, during the commencement address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (June 10, 1940); reported in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 263.
- I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene IV (Macbeth).
- The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit.
- Mike Tyson "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world", Paul Hayward, The Telegraph, (01 May 2002).
