#betray

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#community #greed #honesty #change

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#betrayed #fidelity #peculiar #those #virtue

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#america #asking #basis #betrayal #committee

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#betray #country #either #electorate #i

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. ↗

— John Fowles

#hitler #tragedy #war #courage

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#end #failure #few #good #good stories

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. ↗

— Rollo May

#betrayed #express #ideas #listen #original

You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it's all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say that they do love you, but to someone else. To someone they have slept with. Someone that isn't you. I want to forget I heard those three words. I want to dissolve the images I have in my heard of her with him. I think I'm going to throw up. ↗

— Steph Campbell

#love #novel #love

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#each #i #i have learned #learned #pencil

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#betrayal #emotions #escaping #longing #loss