Distrust Quotes

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.