Quotes About Distrust

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in your interest - those are also villains in and of their own right.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

I'm afraid to apply for a visa to the U.S.A. because it's against terrorism in a very undemocratic way.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

She planted her hands on her hips. "Which twin are you?" He studied the ground for a moment, then peered up at her, suspicion showing clearly in his brown eyes. "Joe." "Well, Josh, are you alone out here?" "I said I was Joe." "And I think you're afraid I'm going to tell how you frightened me so you gave me your brother's name.

And now you see why lies matter. The actual fib might not matter, but what it shows us is that what you say can't always be trusted. You can't always be trusted.

They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked.

Gamache had asked not because he didn't know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he'd lie about that, what else had he lied about?

She was beginning to see how quickly something completely normal could suddenly seem sinister, if you chose to see it that way.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

Anything different, anything you don't understand, you immediately believe is threatening.

Referencing the Democrats $2 trillion infrastructure bill and the projects it will pay for- "They're asking us to get in the van but they aren't showing us the candy!"

the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore

You're lying," he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn't. "I am not-" "You can say it a million times, but that doesn't make it any more true." Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. "You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who'll listen," he said. "You just can't fool another liar.

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of these things, are you also betraying yourself?

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.

I hate that you didn't trust me enough to tell me the truth.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. —Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

Only the liar knows if he's lying