Quotes About Distrust

what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.

When people lost faith in their government, the result was revolution.

Each betrayal begins with trust

We distrust the electronic vote here.

Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and suspicious of democratic institutions.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

A lot of people are liars who I work with; that's a shame.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

There are a lot of bad people out there.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

I'm no longer a believer in politicians endorsing other politicians.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves." He worried about trouble coming from the many as well as the few—or even the one, in the form of a demagogue who might try to profit from lawlessness and distrust.

paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

You shouldn't take notice of anything that Henry tells you, you know,' he now says, with a chilly smile. 'After all, he is a politician.

Believe me,' [...] 'I would know about it. That's the difference between me and your girlfriend. I am the jealous type. I am the Spanish Inquisition when it comes to being fucked around on. No quarter will be given.

Part of why kids like this scared me was that they seemed authentic.

I've learned not to trust what I see on television.