Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Dalton Trumbo

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
Jurgen Habermas

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
Charles Horton Cooley

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

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook

To betray, you must first belong.
Kim Philby

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
Kim Campbell

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
Vicente Fox

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
Ed Harris