In an interview in the Guardian after winning the Nobel prize, October 2007 "Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals".
This caricature of the Jonestown victims was much easier to digest – and dismiss – than the true story, which was one of betrayed ideals, terrifying helplessness and unfathomable heartbreak.
This was a way of reminding them how their actions betray their ideals".
To the Editor: Julie Zhuo's article is a needed challenge to nameless online "trolls" and to the news executives who betray journalistic ideals of accuracy and accountability by enabling the spread of cowardice and contumely without responsibility for consequences.
The bit explodes as the students betray their ideals in an orgy of breaded morsels and dipping sauce, with French fries crunched in slo-mo, and paper parasols gleaming on the rims of margarita glasses.
"I was determined not to do it". In The Martyrdom of St Magnus, with which he launched the annual St Magnus Festival in 1977, he finds heroism in Magnus's unwillingness to betray his ideals, in his cleansing act of redemption through submission to death.
But that formulation raises the equally complex question: At what point does the unprincipled use of political power betray the ideals that originally motivated the achievement of that power.
"They not only betrayed the institutions they were sworn to protect, but they also betrayed the ideals that thousands of honest, hard-working correctional officers uphold every day".
It also shows how close to betraying European ideals some leaders are willing to go.
In college, he says, he was appalled to learn how the French Revolution betrayed its ideals.
Of course, there are those who say that the state has betrayed liberal ideals.
