Quotes About Distrust

He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.

A government based on fear attracts the worst elements, who corrupt it from within. A shaky edifice, a government against its people, any of its people, must soon collapse.

MY HUSBAND Ã¢â'¬Â¦ HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I'd be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust.

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

These aren't

The lie would grow into a disease. Cancer, probably.

Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.

It's a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.

I could never respect a man who didn't have the good sense to be at least a little bit afraid of me.

In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

When strangers walk up to me and want to play golf for money, I worry. I wonder why they're coming to me, and I begin asking questions: When did you start playing? What's your best score? Are you playing your best golf right now? Where do you play? Usually I can tell if they're lying.

Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.