Quotes About Distrust

I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.

I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.

But I wanted to make what was terrible so much worse so as to be sure that it was fatal; like Hartley protecting herself by thinking I must hate her.

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man

Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.

You distrusted the Imperials too. Most human beings do these days, which is an important factor in the decay and deterioration of the Empire.

At times, your cynicism borders on impudence.

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they—they, you understand—may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

prefería entenderse con Dios sin intermediarios, tenía profunda desconfianza de las sotanas y se aburría con las descripciones del cielo, el purgatorio y el infierno

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)

This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

I care about the people saying they're protecting us not protecting us. That's a big zero.

'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Women distrust men too much in general, and too little in particular.