Quotes About Distrust

If you want to traumatize people, treason trials are an extreme way—if there are spies running around in our midst, then we're really in trouble, we'd better just listen to the government and stop thinking.

I think I was so entranced with being a couple that I didn't even notice that the person I thought I was a couple with thought he was a couple with someone else.

I had long since ceased to believe in the existence of that mystical sisterly loyalty women are alleged to feel toward one another.

Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with? Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me? Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can. Rebecca:You can.

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

not Tony! She studied his

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.

Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

La gente está siempre dispuesta a creer lo contrario de lo que cuentas.

We're not here to witness anything. We're witch-hunters.

The newspaper warns us about terrorist anthrax bombs and virulent new strains of meningitis, and the only comfort newspapers can offer is a coupon for 20 cents off on underarm deodorant.

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We're the culture that cried wolf.

Who in their right minds would trust someone who made a profession out of poking around in sick people?