Violation of Trust Quotes

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

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.

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

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.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

I've had friends who've lied to me, I've had friends who've done things behind my back, I've had people steal from me - and it doesn't stop me from trusting.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

When you steal from somebody, you are saying to them, 'I don't respect how hard you worked for your money.' When somebody steals from you, that's what they're saying.

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

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

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

Thus will the Sharif Husain ... be made to suffer the humiliation which he has brought upon himself by having bartered the dignity conferred upon him by the Caliph of Islam [the Ottoman Sultan] for a state of enslavement to the British.