Quotes About Mistrust

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.

I have a big cynical side to me.

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.

Nothing's ever as harmless as it seems.

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Personally, I mistrust all handsome men. The superficial pleasures of this life come too easily to them, and they seem to walk the world as though they themselves were personally responsible for their own good looks. I don't mind a woman being pretty. That's different. But in a man, I'm sorry, but somehow or other I find it downright offensive.

Forgive me. I am shy by nature:--& by position & experience, . . . by having had my nerves shaken to excess, & by leading a life of such seclusion, . . . by these things together & by others besides, I have appeared shy & ungrateful to you. Only not mistrustful. You could not mean to judge me so. Mistrustful people do not write as I write, . . . surely!

Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark)

The romantic personality is pervaded with a subtle mistrust of intellectualism, and this fact is often conducive to that immoral action called daydreaming. Contrary to belief, daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism...

You didn't hear me right. I didn't say 'a mug of poisoned tea'. I said 'a poisoned mug of tea'. It was the handle I poisoned... Laken Cross, you are an evil man for coming here to kill me and you're an evil man for forcing me to do what I had to do. I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. - Finbar

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Your basic sense of people is that they are out to hurt you and secretly enjoy your suffering. It is the emotional tone of your relationships—the feeling that surrounds you when somebody gets close.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

I'd been wrong about his eyes. They weren't pools. They were ice.

so foes persue, and cold allies mistrust me, every one: let me be false in others' eyes if faithful in my own

You can love someone you mistrust.

Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.

Mais les dogmes bolcheviks et l'étatisme communiste ont constitué un obstacle fatal aux activités créatrices du peuple. La caractéristique fondamentale de la psychologie bolchevik était sa méfiance envers les masses.

I don't trust any of you.