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Quotes About Mistrust

Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.
~ Michael Specter
Nickie didn't like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
~ Jasper Fforde
That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks. But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none. And the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.
~ William Shakespeare
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was not aware of being alone; I could not feel it. I needed those I loved, it did not occur to me that those I loved did not need me. But now my eyes were open, and misfortune had already let mistrust enter my soul.
~ Unknown
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
~ Hermann Hesse
Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet.
~ Honore de Balzac
However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to the human heart.
~ Honore de Balzac
She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
~ Liane Moriarty
There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by a chain. Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions...The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I had to assume the worst about people because I knew firsthand what horrible things they were capable of.
~ Jessica Cutler
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
~ Unknown
That's my problem. I'm constantly wary. I can't trust anyone.
~ Unknown
Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.
~ Vera Nazarian
Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
~ Veronica Roth
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
~ Victor Hugo
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
~ Dean Koontz
There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.
~ Dean Koontz
Masters and men do not trust each other; they fear each other, ever thinking that each side is ready to take advantage.
~ Hugh Black
The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.
~ Ian Rankin
I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.
~ Craig Ferguson
But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
~ D. H. Lawrence