Quotes About Distrust

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Be Safe: Be Suspicious Suspicion Breeds Confidence Don't suspect a friend, report him

Only those you trust can betray you.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

Cuando se afirma y se subraya tal cosa sin que tal diferencia resulte de las palabras mismas, y cuando en lugar de ello, las palabras se refieren precisamente a lo que niegan tales afirmaciones, surge la sospecha de que en tales palabras se esconde precisamente lo negado. Por lo tanto, no hay que creer demasiado en esas afirmaciones.

What I cannot understand about the Russian is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.