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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Sep 24, 2025
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?
Each betrayal begins with trust.
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
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