Quotes about Breach of Loyalty

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Treason is a matter of dates.

Prince de Benévant

Arab Proverb

Only betrayal can counter betrayal.

George Washington

Arnold is a traitor, and has fled to the British! Whom can we trust now?

Arnold was not just any senior officer, but one who had been a great fighter against the British not only, leading his men brilliantly but exposed himself to great danger in the process. He had been such a hero that Washington could not imagine how an officer like that could become a traitor to the cause. Arnold’s treasom had nothing to do with ideology or the issues of the war. Arnold felt that he had not been appreciated for his efforts (his commanding officer gave him no credit for the most heroic and effective military battlefield leadership up to that point in the war) and became disaffected.

Mother Jones

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Lysander Spooner

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

Allison Anders

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

James Cagney

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Mr. T

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

Hillary Clinton

You sold out, you motherfucker, you sold out!

Hillary Rodham (not yet married to Bill Clinton, at the time a student at Yale Law School) shouted this at Joe Califano as he walked down the aisle of the Senate Caucus Room, representing Paul Austin, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola in a hearing on migrant labor problems on July 24, 1970. Coca-Cola had acquired Minute Maid in 1960, and as a result became involved in the issue because of their exploitation of migrant workers in Florida. Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, was conducting the hearing. He ended up praising Austin in the hearing as Austin agreed to support amending the National Labor Relations act to cover migrant workers and permit them to organize.

Bashir Assad

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

Jade Bird

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.

Drew Pinsky

You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.

Aeschylus

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Drew Pinsky

Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn't them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don't.

Kevin Pietersen

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Henry IV of France

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

Joseph Smith Jr.

All the enemies upon the face of the earth may roar and exert all their power to bring about my death, but they can accomplish nothing, unless some who are among us and enjoy our society, have been with us in our councils, participated in our confidence, taken us by the hand, called us brother, saluted us with a kiss, join with our enemies, turn our virtues into faults, and, by falsehood and deceit, stir up their wrath and indignation against us, and bring their united vengeance upon our heads.... We have a Judas in our midst.

He was soon thereafter murdered.

Jim Boeheim

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

King James I

That means that I shall be under the law, which it is treason to affirm.

The king summoned all his judges before him and stated that since they were his surrogates, he could remove cases at will from their jurisdiction and decide them himself. Sir Edward Coke, a leading jurist of the day, dissented and urged that since his Majesty was not learned in the law, he should leave legal matters to his judges and lawyers.