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Quotes About Distrust

Betrayal of trust is, by far, the very cruelest sin of all.
~ Unknown
Uma família que não tem um ladrão. Vê se pode!
~ Nelson Rodrigues
She struck Darden as the kind whose corpse would kick you three days after you shot her.
~ Nevada Barr
But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?" I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.
~ Nevil Shute
He has to lie,' said Karen. 'He always lied. I hope he hasn't hurt you.
~ Unknown
all.' He pointed his finger at Skull. 'I bet
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
~ Nicholas II of Russia
To be fair, what looks like conspiracy often turns out to be bureaucracy.
~ Unknown
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
~ Nick Rhodes
Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.
~ Nicola Griffith
Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.
~ Nicola Griffith
She turned her head slightly, to examine me out of each eye, as though each saw a different world but only one could be trusted.
~ Nicola Griffith
She looked at the bag, slitty-eyed as a cat by a mouse hole.
~ Nicola Griffith
A good land, and rich, but poisoned by fear.
~ Nicola Griffith
Hild wondered how it must feel to have someone you didn't quite trust make prophecies about what mattered most to you in the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
She was tired of striving, tired of the sideways look of those who did not trust her.
~ Nicola Griffith
For some reason it wasn't as hard to have her touch me, now that she knew my name. Her fingers were strong and brisk. I wondered who she went home to, whether she washed their hair for them in the shower or bath, if she knew how easy it would be to hurt me across the larynx with a shampoo bottle and watch me choke to death. I almost sat up.
~ Nicola Griffith
My lord." Gwenhwyfar's voice was gentle. "You have given no word here for any to either trust or distrust.
~ Nicola Griffith
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Reactionary thought has been accused of irrationalism because it refuses to sacrifice the canons of reason to the prejudices of the day. The root of reactionary thought is not distrust of reason but distrust of the will.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
~ Nicole Richie
One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children.
~ Nien Cheng