Quotes About Distrust

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

Don't believe the fake media.

The world is falling apart and nobody is there for you, 2020 has shown it over and over again. But American capitalism is.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

By contrast, almost all our richer kids said that (with some qualifications) they do trust other people. That comparison reflects not paranoia on the part of poor kids, but the malevolent social realities within which they live and the fact that people and institutions have so often failed them.

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You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless raincoat, 'aren't.

everything started to look more sinister.

The simplest, most plausible explanation I can think of is that somebody offered her a lift. A car pulled up—" "Or a van," said Strike. Robin had, indeed, reached the same conclusion he had. "Someone she knew—" "Or someone who seemed safe. An elderly man—" "Or what she thinks is a woman." "Exactly," said Robin.

When you're living a lie, nothing's more threatening than people who tell the truth…

Anyone pointing out pitfalls or difficulties is scaremongering. Experts don't know anything. Facts lie.