Quotes About Distrust

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

There are many hidden truths behind a lie

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.