Quotes About Distrust

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Politics makes me sick.

It was a city built on promise, on compromise, on inspiration and empty rhetoric both, on history poorly remembered and easily bent, and once in a while, on good people with the best of intentions who battled against the distrust, misdirection, and deceit that was politics as usual. (Referring to Washington, D.C.)

whoso wilneth hire to wif, for welthe of hire goodes but he be knowe for a cokewold, kut of my nose!

Men are shits." "All men?" "Maybe I'm being too harsh. There might be a nice guy in Toledo. I'm just talking about the ones I sleep with.

Where nobody trusts anyone else, it's impossible to work together.

All Cretans are liars, as a Cretan poet once told me.

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.

Quand deux personnes se mentent sur le même sujet, il y a peu de chances de se démasquer.

Just go along with it, he told himself. You get involved with the Night Squad, there's no telling what they might do, even though they work from city hall and are listed officially as policemen.

What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

For all their obvious differences, the pope and Mussolini were alike in many ways. Both could have no real friends, for friendship implied equality.

admonition: "Fear your enemy once, fear your friend a thousand times.