Distrust Quotes

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.