Example of Betrayal of Public Trust
A famous example of the betrayal of public trust is in the assassination of Julius Caesar, who was killed by Roman senators who believed they had to act drastically to preserve the republic against his alleged monarchical ambitions.
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Famous quotes containing the words betrayal, public and/or trust:
“Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything—history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch.”
—J.A. (José Antonio)
“For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver—that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)