Quotes About Distrust

Nadie confía en nadie, todo el mundo espera alguna bajeza del prójimo.

He had no faith in money, but he'd nervously squirrel it away. Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Orson Scott Card

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you"?

A liar sees lies," said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

If good people weren't so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.

Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

She felt abused, used, cherished, and pleasured. She despised him. She loved him. She mistrusted him. She had complete faith in him. "Ah!

There are other good guys. You said so. Yes. So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.

That there is little joy in the world is not just a view of things. Every benevolence is suspect. You finally figure out that the world does not have you in mind. It never did.

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.

The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict; the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division.

I'm sorry, Silvertongue, but the fact is I don't believe anyone. You ought to know that by now. We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Niemand au?er den Ratsmidgliedern, ihre Sekretären, Ehefrauen, den Minenarbeitern, die die Gruft gefunden haben...' Jacob hob den Zwerg in den Käfig. 'Ich wurde mich nicht darauf verlassen, dass euer Geheimnis sicher ist.