Quotes About Distrust

Joe Arpaio built a wall. His was a wall of distrust, and when you don't have the trust of the community, you don't have anything. He claimed to be a law-and-order sheriff, but he was really lawlessness and disorder.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

By contrast, people who do not trust one another will end up cooperating only under a system of formal rules and regulations, which have to be negotiated, agreed to, litigated, and enforced, sometimes by coercive means. This legal apparatus, serving as a substitute for trust, entails what economists call "transaction costs." Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.

no sería bueno que los mexicanos dejaran de creer en unos hombres que en su mayoría sólo han asesinado, robado y castrado las conciencias?

México nació como un país desunido, racista, clasista, desconfiado, resentido y egoísta, sepultado en una patética desigualdad, que después de siglos de fracasos propios y de invasiones, ya solo creía en la Virgen de Guadalupe

The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street.

I hope you don't mind my joining you," said Leanne. I minded. After all, she'd tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn't.

Nothing of the sort was true in Iraq, where the people, like many Muslims in the region, deeply distrusted foreign occupiers.

I made sure about their past before shaking hands with them. You have to be careful before you can accept a German.

No, Joss no confiaría en las cosas por nada en el mundo, como tampoco confiaba en los hombres ni en la mar. Las primeras os roban la razón, los segundos, el alma y la tercera, la vida.

Even a well-founded suspicion more or less degrades a man. His suspicion may be verified, and he may escape some material harm by having cherished the suspicion. But he is unavoidably the worse man in consequence of having entertained it.

He who is near the Church is often far from God.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty.

rule is no peeking, I won't even consider it." "If we find a need for your special immunity, we'll make use of it," Grandpa promised. "If you find a need," Seth muttered. "I bet you won't be looking very hard. Say, Coulter, how did you know

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.

Never trust a man who tells you good news.

We don't want you along," Vin said. "We don't trust you - and we don't like you.

Better to trust and be betrayed

Everyone betrays everyone else. That's the way life is….

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!