Quotes About Distrust

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

there is no honour among consultants.

Cord followed up with, "I like it here, but it's beginning to feel creepy. Does anyone else think it's creepy?" "You're talking to a bunch of guys," Yul said. "No one here is going to validate your feelings." She tossed sand at him.

That sounds like bulshytt!

As Pete put it, "Their fathers believed that the people in the cities actually gave a shit about them enough to want to come and take their guns and other property. So they put money they didn't really have into stockpiling trillions of rounds and hunkered down waiting for the elites to come confiscate their stuff. There's no use for any of it. So they come here sometimes and 'vote with bullets.

Human nature scares the hell out of me.

On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

It struck him that the world was full of professional snoops, and it was sad that Americans didn't even trust Americans anymore.

The world doesn't try to screw you; the world is indifferent to you. But people try to screw you, and people need to know when they've picked the wrong guy to screw. And that's me.

He looked around the crowded room. "The walls have ears." "Actually, they have termites. And no one here cares what we're talking about. Look, Mr. Macia, you have offered me two million dollars and it will not surprise you that I could use the money, but—

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

Old guys have seen too much, and they trust no one.

every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

When you're dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don't always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.

I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there's nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.

Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.

Alexander never did what he said, Cesare never said what he did.

By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.