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Quotes About Betrayal

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
~ Frank Herbert
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
~ Frank Herbert
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
~ Frank Herbert
I never could bring myself to trust a traitor," the Baron said. "Not even a traitor I created.
~ Frank Herbert
Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will try to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.
~ Frank Herbert
My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
~ Frank Herbert
Don't be so sure you know where to draw the line," he said. "We carry our past with us. And, mother mine, there's a thing you don't know and should—we are Harkonnens." Her
~ Frank Herbert
I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?
~ Frank Herbert
Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.
~ Frank Herbert
A smile touched Piter's lips. "And to think, Baron: the Padishah Emperor believes he's given the Duke your spice planet. How poignant.
~ Frank Herbert
What terrible things we do to those we love!
~ Frank Herbert
Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
~ Frank Herbert
I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
~ Frank Herbert
Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides." The
~ Frank Herbert
Y la lealtad es un valioso lujo. Se puede vender, pero no comprar. —
~ Frank Herbert
Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?
~ Frank Herbert
You have defiled my honor!" Stilgar cried. "This is neutral—" "Shut up!" Idaho glared at the shocked Naib. "You wear a collar, Stilgar! " It was one of the three most deadly insults which could be directed at a Fremen. Stilgar's face went pale. "You are a servant," Idaho said. "You've sold Fremen for their water." This was the second most deadly insult, the one which had destroyed the original Jacurutu.
~ Frank Herbert
Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative.
~ Frank Herbert
Death and deceit are our only hopes now.
~ Frank Herbert
I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.
~ Frank Herbert
Piter de Vried
~ Frank Herbert
who hate the Harkonnens so much they'll burn a chair in which a Harkonnen has sat, salt the ground over which a Harkonnen has walked.
~ Frank Herbert
I swear this to you by the love I hold for you, a love I will still hold even after I leave you dead on this floor.
~ Frank Herbert
En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.
~ Frank Herbert