Quotes About Mistrust

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth this was not so much a philosophical mistrust for the worldly, the mundane and transitory—no, rather it was unpardonable infantile idleness and gross negligence. I would rather do anything than read through a contract.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.

Our argument is that it is not contact with the police per se that is problematic. In fact, the results of the study suggest that when the police deal with people in ways that they experience as being fair, contact promotes trust and a variety of types of desirable public behavior. Rather, it is contact that communicates suspicion and mistrust that undermines the relationship between the public and the police.

No, Joss no confiaría en las cosas por nada en el mundo, como tampoco confiaba en los hombres ni en la mar. Las primeras os roban la razón, los segundos, el alma y la tercera, la vida.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

She wasn't trying to spy on me -- she was just trying to rob me

The disciple living by grace rather than law has undergone a decisive conversion—a turning from mistrust to trust. The foremost characteristic of living by grace is trust in the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.

The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.

there are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

Querido mío, yo odio a los hombres para no despreciarlos, pues de lo contrario la vida sería una farsa demasiado asquerosa.

This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?

You can love someone you mistrust.