Quotes with betrays

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

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  • Jean Baptiste Racine A single word often betrays a great design.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Armstrong Williams 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.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Confucius Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Aldous Huxley The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lord Chesterfield To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bryan Fuller With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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