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21 " It is she who has a hold on him. Doesn't she see how much he needs her? She has nothing to be afraid of, her conscience is clear. It is he who should be ashamed, and terrified of her giving him away. But that is just what she will never do. To do this she does not have the necessary ruthlessness--Komarovsky's chief asset in dealing with subordinates and weaklings. This is precisely the difference between them. And it is this that makes the whole of life so terrifying. Does it crush you by thunder and lightning? No, by oblique glances and whispered calumny. It is all treachery and ambiguity. Any single thread is as fragile as a cobweb, but just try to pull yourself out of the net, you only become more entangled. And the strong are dominated by the weak and ignoble. "
― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago
22 " Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap. "
― , To Die For
23 " Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it. "
― Mary MacLane , I Await the Devil's Coming
24 " I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies. "
― Emily Brontë , Wuthering Heights
25 " The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , The Space Between
26 " Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate her grandmother, without making any impression on his appetite, and then ate her, after making that ferocious joke about his teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it but to look out the Wolf in the Noah's Ark there, and put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who was to be degraded. "
― Charles Dickens , A Christmas Tree
27 " there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day "
― Charles Bukowski
28 " Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood. "
― Diane Duane , My Enemy, My Ally (Star Trek: Rihannsu, #1)
29 " Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope. "
― Mario Puzo
30 " The Most Dangerous (Sab Ton Khatarnak - Paash)The most dangerous occurrence is not a robbery of hard work,The most horrifying act is not a torture by the police,A merger of treachery and greed is not the most dangerous.To be trapped while asleep is surely miserable,To be buried under the silence is surely miserable,But it is still not the most dangerous.To remain silent in the noise of corruption is surely miserable,Reading covertly under the light of a firefly is surely miserable,But it is still not the most dangerous.The most dangerous deed is to be filled with a dead silence,Not feeling any agony against the unjust and bearing it all.Getting trapped in the routine of running from home to work and from work to home,The most dangerous accident is a death of our dreams.The most dangerous thing is that watch which runs on your wrist, but stands still for your eyes**A Translation of Paash's poem Sab ton Khatarnak by Jasz Gill "
― Paash
31 " There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable "
32 " ...But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed." " What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?" The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, " You may learn treachery from it. "
33 " Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and " the public's right to know" ; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living. "
34 " Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several pathways. The most obvious is a debunking of ignorance and superstition. A connected and educated populace, at least in aggregate and over the long run, is bound to be disabused of poisonous beliefs, such as that members of other races and ethnicities are innately avaricious or perfidious; that economic and military misfortunes are caused by the treachery of ethnic minorities; that women don't mind to be raped; that children must be beaten to be socialized; that people choose to be homosexual as part of a morally degenerate lifestyle; that animals are incapable of feeling pain. The recent debunking of beliefs that invite or tolerate violence call to mind Voltaire's quip that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "
― Steven Pinker , The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
35 " Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill. "
36 " What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man. "
37 " To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it "
― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Chosen (Phèdre's Trilogy, #2)
38 " Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "
39 " There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour. "
