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Quotes About Trust

You've got to let them make their own mistakes. All you can do is to follow and make sure they don't scare the horses or get arrested or damage anyone apart from themselves.
~ Unknown
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Soms vermomden ze zich als vrienden, dan deden ze aardig en gezellig en lieten ze je geloven dat je een van hen was en dan liet jij, stom rund, je verdediging varen en dan braken ze je hart door je te vernachelen. Vervolgens gooiden ze je weg als een kapot stuk speelgoed.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
all.' He pointed his finger at Skull. 'I bet
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
He started touching me. 'How old are you?' He ran his hands over my nose, my mouth, my eyes. I was paralysed. 'Nine. What about you?' 'Nine.' 'When's your birthday?' 'The twelfth of September. And yours?' 'The Twentieth of November.' 'What's your name?' 'Michele. Michele Amitrano. What year are you in at school?' 'The fourth. What about you?' 'The fourth.' 'Same.' 'Same' 'I'm thirsty.' I gave him the bottle
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
A coward cannot have any prayer answered.
~ Unknown
Plagues reshape our familiar social order, require us to disperse and live apart, wreck economies, replace trust with fear and suspicion, invite some to blame others for their predicament, embolden liars, and cause grief. But plagues also elicit kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, and ingenuity.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Groupthink encourages conformity and this consistently leads back to trusting and following the leader, for it is through him or her that their cause will be achieved.
~ Unknown
My friends,' he told them. 'I am going to throw this aboard the English ship.
~ Unknown
Sir John thought it best not to mention that the crew of the Antelope hadn't been paid for eighteen months either.
~ Unknown
contained in sealed orders that were not to be opened until they were at sea.
~ Unknown
Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.
~ Unknown
Other people can also help you take care of your needs and desires. Whatever
~ Unknown
Hope is a lover's staff,
~ Unknown
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
~ Nicholas Evans
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
~ Nicholas Evans
Dancing and riding, it's the same damn thing. It's about trust and consent.
~ Nicholas Evans
It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.
~ Nicholas Evans
First Baptist of Ivy Gap
~ Nicholas II of Russia