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Quotes About Distrust

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight
~ Sister Souljah
You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
~ Sitting Bull
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
~ Sitting Bull
People just can't get along anymore. There's no commitment, no loyalty, no trust.
~ Skip Coryell
Why communism failed: it failed because of distrust, because of a fear for the future. Because deep down no body believed in a system that was continuously unable to provide for its life citizen's basic needs for forty years or more.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.
~ Sophie Hannah
In Ländern, deren Bürger sich in Gefängnissen nicht sicher fühlen, fühlt man sich in der Freiheit ebenso unsicher.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
~ Stanislaw Lem
Persistently trying to hoodwink one another, the Emperor, the kings, the princes, and the revolutionaries created an atmosphere of general distrust (like that which poisons the world today); and, in the end, though they had not directly purposed anything of the kind, they involved twenty-five million men in the cataract or a war which lasted for twenty-five years.
~ Stefan Zweig
But you wouldn't believe what a dead finger does to a living hand.
~ Stefan Zweig
como nos ha recordado Ortega en su España invertebrada, o en La rebelión de las masas, el mayor mal de nuestro país consiste en el recelo de la masa recela ante el hombre de grandes virtudes, ante el hombre de espíritu, acogiendo, sin embargo, en su seno solo a profetas mediocres, tanto de un lado como de otro.
~ Stefan Zweig
Art?k her ÅŸeyi biliyorlar. Kendilerine yalan söylendiÄŸini, bütün insanlar?n kötü olduÄŸunu ve alçakl?k edebileceÄŸini biliyorlar. Ana babalar?n? da sevmiyorlar art?k, onlara inanm?yorlar.
~ Stefan Zweig
Robespierre) EÄŸilip bükülürlüÄŸe, dirençsizliÄŸe, baÅŸar? için yaltaklanmalara kar?? beslediÄŸi kinin bütün kat?l???yla, dine baÄŸl? olanlar?n kutsall??a deÄŸer vermeyenlere kar?? duyduÄŸu güvensizlikle küçümsüyor Fouché'yi.
~ Stefan Zweig
You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
~ Stella Benson
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
~ Aristotle
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.
~ Mark Shields
Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.
~ Ronald Knox
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
~ Eric Hoffer
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~ Andre Maurois
Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
~ Victor Hugo