Quotes About Distrust

Do not be deceived by impostors.

My default state is wariness.

People just don't believe we'll deliver what we say we will. They don't believe we want to listen or to understand their lives. And they don't believe we are able to do much to make their lives better.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

And," Mae added, voice prim, "if you try to brag about this, no one's going to believe you. No one will believe someone like me would sleep with someone like you." That was the gut punch. It was also the last word, because he couldn't muster another response.

He's getting married." "That means nothing. If it did, guys wouldn't catch chlamydia at their bachelor parties." "But

Distrust is the mother of security," an American commander wrote.

The DNC was right: an amazingly large segment of the population disliked and mistrusted Richard Nixon instinctively. What they did not acknowledge was that an amazingly large segment of the population also trusted him as their savior. "Nixonland" is what happens when these two groups try to occupy a country together. By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

Beware of people that envy you.

Suspecting you've been overcharged, so making sure to frown as you insert your debit card and pay in full.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

quienes hacen trampas por ti también te las harán a ti.

None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.

Wall Street's shenanigans have convinced a large portion of America that the economic game is rigged. Yet capitalism depends on trust. Without trust, people avoid even sensible economic risks. They also begin trading in gray markets and black markets. They think that if the big guys cheat in big ways, they may as well begin cheating in small ways. And when they think the game is rigged, they're easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas. Wall

Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)

Every man for himself, the devil for all.

those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no supreme power; that have cauterized consciences, or live in a reprobate sense; or such desperate persons as are too distrustful of his mercies.

was suspected in certain quarters of informing to the police on people whom he wished to see removed from the scene.