Quotes About Distrust

My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.

The more you get to know someone, the more there is to dislike. If you get to know them well enough, you hate them.

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

paranoid is someone with all the facts, the joke went.

But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]

I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect.

I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

Anyone one loves is a potential enemy.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

Oh, you can trust the studies well enough, generally speaking. What you can't trust are the sweeping conclusions that people often attach to them.

As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man, to distruct courses the world actually could come to an end.

People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.