Quotes About Distrust

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Be strong, be vigilant, strike first. And trust nobody.

The dragons who like you now are the ones most likely to betray you. Believe me. I know.

Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master, a paymaster, for God's love? You silly little man.

Psychopathic workers very often were identified as the source of departmental conflicts, in many cases, purposely setting people up in conflict with each other. "She tells some people one story, and then a totally different story to others.

He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species.

When the situation seems to be exactly what it appears to be, the closest likely alternative is that the situation has been completely faked; when fakery seems extremely evident, the next most probable possibility is that nothing fake is present.—Erving Goffman, Strategic Interaction

People who often falsely accuse, who repeatedly disbelieve the truthful, establish a relationship that makes fear signs ambiguous, likely whether their suspect is truthful or lying.

he is afraid of being falsely accused. Worried that if he looks afraid people will think he is a liar, he may try to conceal his fear so that

At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything," Merton declared.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices.

Ugly Chicken says she's nice,' the little girl said. Freddie

He played on the distrust of the Clintons and subtly disparaged the Republican Party.

The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.

We are always prepared to defend ourselves, because we all live with the fear and paranoia that other people don't like us.

I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

and they looked with coming hatred and with fear upon this young man, saying in their hearts they knew he lied, because they could not believe there was in the whole world a man who would choose an earthen house when he might have a great one.

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!

Brastias. My friend." Uh-oh, this couldn't be good. "Do you lie to me?""Uh . . . no.""See? That's a lie!

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.