Quotes About Distrust

She believed her campaign had failed her—not the other way around—and she wanted "to see who was talking to who, who was leaking to who," said

You cannot deceive me if I'm not looking for anything from you.

He warned that materialism undermined our moral values, that nationalism threatened to crush all hope of universal brotherhood, that militarism bred cynicism and distrust. He saw a moral rot at the core of American life and worried that racism had blinded many of us to

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.

He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair. She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?' 'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

H)ope was like a backstabbing friend. You could trust it sometimes, and then it would turn and drive its blade deep.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Charming as she was, it never pays a Djin to get close to people. Never. Take it from one who knows.

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

You can't trust actors.

Su suite la ilumina una bombilla de voltaje muy débil y tan acogedora como la cámara frigorífica de una carnicería. En otro tiempo podías estar seguro de que las paredes y el télefono estaban atiborrados de micrófonos, pero ahora ya no puedes tener la seguridad de nada.

instrucciones de prudencia dignas de grandes paranoicos.

nadie puede creer en la noble sonrisa de una cabeza degollada.

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

All Cretans are liars.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

we've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Why is it I think you're lying, Brigid?" "Because you spent your entire life surrounded by liars and can't fathom the concept of honesty? Or honor and integrity. Or any other attribute of a good officer.