Quotes About Distrust

as they say, a Cretan is attacking a Cretan" (quod dici solet, Cretensis incidit in Cretensem); that is, "it takes a thief to catch a thief," or "it takes one to know one

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

I didn't trust men. I wanted to trust them because I knew there must be some good men in the world, but the ones I'd known had lied to my face while plotting acts of violence. Women could be bitches, but men were the ones who seemed the most capable of crimes without mercy.

Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived. And on the other hand, Every man is a liar,(3) weak, unstable and frail, especially in his words, so that one ought scarcely ever to believe what seemeth to sound right on the face of it.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

Don't believe in Netanyahu.

Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.

You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

Because you believed him when he promised it wouldn't happen again. Because he gradually grew more violent and controlling over time, slowly enough that you felt like he would change until you finally realized he wouldn't.

Vertrouw mensen,' zei hij tegen me, 'totdat ze je een reden geven om dat niet te doen. En ga daarna nooit meer met je rug naar ze toe staan.

Confía en las personas —me aconsejaba— hasta que te den motivos para no hacerlo. Y entonces no vuelvas a fiarte nunca.

The fact is, though, that until society understands the process, the law, and the methodology of investigations, it will continue to react to investigations with general distrust. It is a truth that one cannot detect "abnormal" until one understands what "normal" looks like. It is our contention that too much of the public debate has been held on emotional, as opposed to factual and legal grounds.

I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

It's hard to tell you has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think.