Quotes About Mistrust

the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Orice om care nu moare de foame este suspect.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back.

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.

All kinds of evil flourish in suspicion. It is a perpetual breeder of the qualities that instantly work for evil, including secrecy and resentment.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

Most of mankind's misery stems from feeling unloved. In the midst of adverse circumstances, people tend to feel that love has been withdrawn and they have been forsaken. This feeling of abandonment is often worse than the adversity itself.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Es fácil que el miedo vaya por delante del pensamiento reflexivo. Y es esa estampida que nos empuja a actuar precipitadamente, provocada por la inseguridad, la que yo contemplo con gran escepticismo. Esa clase de miedo socavada la fraternidad, envenena la cooperación y nos lleva a hacer cosas de las que nos avergonzamos profundamente más tarde.

many of their supporters attribute the failure to "traitors"; belief in the effectiveness of institutions diminishes; and finally a post-populist recession causes demoralization, which leads to yet another enfeebling bout of populism. Some countries—Argentina is the paradigmatic example—seem unable to escape from such a spiral of mistrust, failure, and yet more mistrust.

I tried putting myself in the place of the Sender. I would send nothing that could be used contrary to my intentions. To provide any kind of tool without knowing to whom would be like handing out grenades to children.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.

human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence to one another.

Never trust anyone who doesn't smoke pot or listen to Dylan. Never trust anyone who doesn't like the beach. And NEVER ever, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don't like dogs!

He hadn't imagined a world in which one hundred percent of the people he investigated were up to no good.

For an intelligence service, there is no process more painful and debilitating than an internal hunt for an unidentified traitor. The damage Philby did to MI6's self-confidence was far greater and more enduring than anything he inflicted by spying for the KGB. A mole does not just foment mistrust. Like a heretic, he undermines the coherence of faith itself.

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

You say that I'm paranoid But I'm pretty sure the world is out to get me

Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a policy of boycott and non-cooperation.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.