Quotes About Trust

A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won't be wrong too often.

You tickle trout by gaining their confidence, and then abusing it.

How can I be sure? I'm a doctor, not a fortune-teller.

Minerva, if I sell a horse, I won't guarantee that it has a leg on each corner; the buyer must count them himself.

Only enough to protect the organization. Friday, you are well aware that the absence of Eyes and Ears today simply means that they are concealed. Be assured that I am shameless about protecting the organization.

no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Jacob, even though I find it necessary to leave you … I love and respect you … and will always listen to you.

Won't discuss bookkeeping this firm used. Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.

she had no religion with a brand on it, then cautioned me not to tell Greg. I exacted same caution from her. I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Gramp had a heavy hand. 'Never take anybody's word about whether a gun is loaded.

Just As Soon As" should be printed on dollar bills, replacing "In God We Trust" as the great American slogan.

We could give our children the most wonderful blessing if only we would stop passing the buck to them.

The real fun of conspiracy hunting comes when you realize you can't trust anyone, as all the paranoids know.

In brief, once a government has n orders of secret police spying on each other, all are potentially suspect, and to be safe, a secret police of order n plus 1 must be created. And so on, forever.

In practice, of course, this cannot regress to mathematical infinity, but only to the point where every citizen is spying on every other citizen or until the funding runs out.

In spying-and-hiding transactions, worry leads to more worry and suspicion leads to more suspicion. The very act of participating, however unwillingly, in the secret police game — even as victim, or citizen being monitored — will eventually produce all the classic symptoms of clinical paranoia.

The agent knows who he is spying on, but he never knows who is spying on him. Could it be his wife, his mistress, his secretary, the newsboy, the Good Humor man?

After all, even those who create Disinformation Systems have themselves swallowed Disinformation Systems devised by their rivals. As Henry Kissinger once said, Anybody in Washington who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

People think that only the banks can create money. That's a hallucination. Aleister Crowley tells in his autobiography of a part of Mexico during the Revolution where there was no money available, so the people in the town just wrote on pieces of paper, "I owe you five pesos," or whatever. And they were using these pieces of paper while the town went right along and got more prosperous because they weren't paying interest every time they created money.

Got nothing to do with us," I said. "I'm working on a case. You're my trusty sidekick." "Long as I don't have to call you Kemo Sabe." "Ever wonder what that meant?" I said. "I always thought it meant Paleface Motherfucker," Hawk said. "That's probably it," I said.

I think you've never quite altogether forgiven yourself for that woman in Los Angeles all that time ago." "Candy Sloan," I said. Susan nodded. "Only time I ever cheated on you," I said. "Makes it that much worse, doesn't it?" Susan said. "I'm not sure it makes any difference," I said. Susan smiled the smile she used when she knew I was wrong but planned to let me get away with it.

The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant." "Adler?" "Theodor Reik, I think.

Candy nodded absently. "Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?" "A gun," I said.

called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to his place on Bow Lake to talk with him. On the drive up Route 93, I called Epstein on the cell phone.