Quotes About Distrust

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.

They feared one another because they knew what they were capable of doing, and maybe in some cases, had done. The more weapons they created, the more frightened they would have been of the weapons they imagined their enemies had created, and so they strove to make worse weapons, to discourage any attack. I don't think any of them imagined anyone would dare to use them and yet what other end could there be to it all?' 'They

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their own games, one more serious than the other, one game inside another, so that it's impossible to discover what the real one is.

But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He's succeeded in this, at least.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Smears, character assassination, and the scattering of irresponsible charges have no place in this nation. They create division, suspicion, and distrust among loyal Americans—just what the communists want—and hinder rather than aid the fight against communism.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

What if it wasn't the guy from the bar? What if it was some freak out looking to whack some chick off because his mommy didn't make him buttered toast and cut it into fun shapes when he was a kid?

In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue.

When Chesterton says we must not trust humanity, he especially reminds us not to put too much trust in politics or in whatever political party we pick. We generally expect too much from political parties, but none of them is based on any permanent philosophy, and, because of that, at some point they will conflict with faith.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Heretics are the only ones worth trusting,' the voice said, 'for they have everything to gain and everything to lose.

memory is a faithless friend

Pinched silence. Then, "You were the one making eyes at him, always putting yourself in his path.

I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin.... She stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies.

The truth about our lie. The truth about our lie? Or was it a lie about the truth? Truth and lies. Lies and Truths. Lielielielielie. Truthtruthtruththruthtruth.

Who cares, anymore? Nobody believes anything politicians say. It's not like they're working for us, all they do after they get into office is run for reelection. Money, money, money, that's all it's about.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

Selling makes many of us uncomfortable and even a bit disgusted ("ick," "yuck," "ugh"), in part because we believe that its practice revolves around duplicity, dissembling, and double-dealing.

Asymmetrical information creates all sorts of headaches. If the seller knows much more about the product than the buyer, the buyer understandably gets suspicious. What's the seller concealing?