Quotes About Distrust

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Vivir en el engaño o ser engañado es fácil'

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Social life almost ceased. Even in church, each worshipper was wary of his neighbour.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"—"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Luca has difficulty reconciling all the genuine kindness of strangers. It seems impossible that good people—so many good people—can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Jimmy's two earliest and most enduring lessons from his mother were these: there was always some Them out to get you, and reality was whatever you believed.

My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects.

I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie.