Quotes About Distrust

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

especially as they did not trust one another.

Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion.

Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there's something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world.

trust is easy to throw away and hard to regain.

I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can?for a time. But not a very long time.

The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.

I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

Consciousness returned and when it unpacked its bags, there was suspicion in them.

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

Ajax blinked. Then he looked swiftly into her face. In her words, in her voice, was a sound he knew well. For the first time he saw the green ribbon. He looked around and saw the gleaming kitchen and the table set for two and detected the scent of the nest. Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put him to the death-knell question Where you been? His eyes dimmed with a mild and momentary regret.

I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do.

When he arrived he thought their flaws were normal; their disagreements ordinary. They were pleased by the accomplishments of their neighbors and their mockery of the lazy and the loose was full of laughter. Or used to be. Now, it seemed, the glacial wariness they once confined to strangers more and more was directed toward each other.

Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.

By the late 1960s, the idea that "nanny knows best" was already starting to produce a backlash.

between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US, the UK and Ireland—three

we lose faith not just in parliamentarians and congressmen, but in Parliament and Congress themselves.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.

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