Quotes About Distrust

This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

The people who are suspicious of certain things are the very ones who are the most capable of doing that of which they are suspicious.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Never like anybody you can't trust, Cruz said. You might think you're a smart boy, you can like somebody and still keep your eyes open. But there's something about liking that dismays your attention, I don't know what it is. You allow yourself to like somebody you don't trust, and one night soon enough, you'll wake up to find an ax cleaved in the back of your skull, and you'll have your own foolish liking to thank for it.

There was something about this girl's body language, the way she kept darting a look at Leanne, then turning her eyes quickly away, that made her think maybe she was telling the truth. In Leanne's experience, if people were lying, they tended either to look away the whole time or to fix you with intense eye contact as if daring you to disbelieve them.

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

I didn't believe her, of course. The lie was transparent—it something that size, someone would have mentioned it during the door-to-door--and it went straight to my heart as no sonata ever could have; because I recognized it. That's my twin brother, his name's Peter, he's seven minutes older than me. . . . Children—it and Rosalind was little more—it don't tell pointless lies unless the reality is too much to bear.

It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.

Cal reached the point a long time ago where those words make him tired for all of humanity. All the innocents say that, and believe it to the bone, right up until the moment when they can't any more. My husband would never do that to our children, my baby ain't no thief. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.

She would walk toward him, sniffing the air around him, like a hound. He smelled of alcohol—not

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

What I know is this: they didn't believe me. Twelve people and not one of them took me at my word.

Nunca serás capaz de pensar mal de los que quieres. Sospecha de todos y nunca seas descuidado.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.