Quotes About Distrust

Adenauer was no less German, but infinitely more adroit. He, too, was irritated by the 'moralising' of the Anglo-Saxons, but he was aware of the deep distrust in which they held the Germans and, in particular, of their fear of Prussian domination

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

They told us not to drink the water from one of our neighborhood wells. The reason was that the wall surrounding the well had some kind of strange notation written on it in white chalk. This was supposedly a Korean code indication that the well water had been poisoned. I was flabbergasted. The truth was that the strange notation was a scribble I myself had written. Seeing adults behaving like this, I couldn't help shaking my head and wondering what human beings are all about.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

Treacle Walker? Me know that pickthank psychopomp? I know him, so I do. I know him. Him with his pots for rags and his bag and his bone and his doddering nag and nookshotten cart and catchpenny oddments. Treacle Walker? I'd not trust that one's arse with a fart.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.