Quotes About Distrust

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.

I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.

Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.

If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.

Only the paranoid survive.

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

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.

Moderation is regarded by the Republican base with suspicion.