Quotes About Distrust

Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

I'm not mad at you, she said. Not even a little? No. Do you still love me? It didn't seem like the perfect time to mention that I had already made copies of the key for the deliverer from Pizza Hut, and the UPS person, and, also the nice guys from Greenpeace, so they could leave me articles on manatees and other animals that are going extinct when Stan is getting coffee. I've never loved you more.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.

El problema no es que mientas. El problema es que te creo

The British are entitled always to mistrust other people but others are not entitled to mistrust the British. That is why England is known or was known abroad as 'Perfide Albion', because the British have two standards, one for themselves and one for other people.

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something." "I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

When a politician says 'yes', it really means 'may be', when he/she says 'may be', it really means 'no'. If a politician says 'no', it means that he/she is not a real politician.

y ahí te timan

Modern science is dominated by distrust when it comes to our own deepest sense of life, and that distrust is nothing but unbelief.

Rumors to frighten honest men.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

I don't like you bondsman. But I hate mysteries even more

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

For some time they talked of reformation; those who apparently desired it most favoring it only for their own profit, and the people who were to be the gainers expecting little and saying nothing. For a long time these poor people, either from distrust, incredulity, or despair, hesitated to ask for their rights: it is said that the habit of serving had taken the courage away from those old communes, which in the middle ages were so bold.

God save me from those I trust in.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?