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Quotes about Betrayal

I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.
— Barack Obama
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
— Euripides
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway
Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
— Eugene Peterson
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
— Euripides
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
— Euripides
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
— Thomas Becket
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
— Gloria Steinem
It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.
— Beth Hoffman
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
— Rose Kennedy
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
— John Milton
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
— Pope Benedict XVI