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Quotes About Distrust

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.
~ Donna Brazile
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
~ Aldous Huxley
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
~ Joseph Addison
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
~ Eugene V. Debs
They've come to overthrow the court, sir!
~ Samuel Parris
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
~ Alan Moore
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
~ Will Rogers
I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.
~ Iman Shumpert
I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
~ Randy Newman
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.
~ Mark Twain
Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.
~ Nicole Castle, Les Recidivists
The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.
~ Saki
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
~ Albert Einstein
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman, Property Of
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
~ Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
~ Marcy Kaptur
So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Trusting anyone can get you killed.
~ Zoë Marriott, FrostFire