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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius

True, Friend, Silence

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi

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.
Martin Luther

Life, Faith, Cannot

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Remember, Again

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

Opinion, Judgment, Industry

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor Adorno

Love, Past, Loved

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, Rather, Succeed

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Narrative, Frequent

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah Webster

Trust, Country, Interest

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine

Love, Fire, Everything

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

Human, Democracy, Give

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
John Thorn

Time, Home, Past

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
Richard E. Grant

Loyalty, Someone, Impossible

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
Steve Albini

Him, Artist, Hubris

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Democracy, Fighting, Victory

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Greil Marcus

Patriotism, Live, Country

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White

Experience, Teacher, Gay

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

Time, Truth, Same

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil

Art, Emotional, True

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