Quotes About Distrust

We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We

I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia

Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.

That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.

It does not do to trust people too much.

if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything." "I'll believe you," she said.

She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

You're half-dead, yet you have the vigor to philander? I was stabbed, not castrated.

Yeah, you're being paranoid all right, pal, Brad concluded, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone. Like that dude said, it ain't paranoia if the bastards really are watchin'.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

98% of all statistics are made up.

Americans are the most inarticulate, illiterate people I've ever met, totally unlettered in the language of the heart, totally distrustful of whatever cannot be touched.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

Trust is the mother of deceit.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.