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Quotes About Distrust

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
If I bet on Humanity I'd never cash a ticket.
~ Charles Bukowski
the people will always betray you. never trust the people.
~ Charles Bukowski
and soon we realized that we were all lying, not exactly lying but mostly
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. On
~ Charles Bukowski
Joe wasn't coming. It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
Then there are guys who fuck you and then chop you up into little pieces. They find parts of your asshole stuffed up a drainpipe in Playa del Rey and your left tit in a trashcan down at Oceanside...
~ Charles Bukowski
Travelling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many trully goodnatured people there are.
~ Charles Darwin
Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb!
~ Charles Stross
You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.
~ Charles Stross
When humans gather, crime is certain.
~ Charles Stross
I'm afraid we shall find evidence of treason: if not, look harder.
~ Charles Stross
I have often felt that I am being watched. That my life is being witnessed by unseen forces, that adjustments are made as these forces see fit, to thwart me, to humiliate me.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Who's the latest woman in your life, Ashley?' she retorted to avoid the question in his eyes. He shrugged. 'At present, no one.' She laughed. 'Do you expect me to believe that?' 'Why should I lie?'His tone was casual. 'You wouldn't give a damn if I had a whole harem, would you?' 'I'd be sorry for them,' she said. As if her reply stung him, he turned away. -Ashley & Selina
~ Charlotte Lamb
have you killed me, false thief?
~ Chaucer Geoffrey
Good Lord, half of America was pretty sure their own president was a Russian puppet.
~ Chris Bohjalian
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
~ Chris Hedges
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
~ James Surowiecki
There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.
~ Jon Lovett
For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
~ Lisa Madigan
I have always been afraid of banks.
~ Andrew Jackson
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
~ Rush Limbaugh
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
~ William Wordsworth