Quotes About Distrust

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.

Anomie has to be someone there, with the quote on the window and the stolen drawing and everything. But you never wanted to believe me, that that place was bad news, because of her.

That brought a scowl from Wolfe. He hates nothing more than cases involving what he terms "rancorous domestic relations.

Be warned, however, that when groups work mostly through e-mail or conference calls (rather than face-to-face), they tend to fight more and trust each other less.

Researchers MeowLan Evelyn Chan and Daniel McAllister contend that when employees distrust others too much and are flooded with fear and anxiety, they become excessively vigilant, focus on just the bad and tune out the good, and see evil motives in the most innocent actions.

He summed up his admiration-tinged condemnation of the Communists in the simple statement: "They lie so truly.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's the living.

You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel)

They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.

In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.

Can't say that I like this all that much," Toussaint said, his rifle raised now and at the ready. "Feels like a trap to me.

comic cynicism

I'm done playing Brokeback Riverdale with you.

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.

The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look.

when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I'm thinking the dope fiend is back

The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn't matter, since you are lying too. The third axiom is 'Kill all liars!

The letters between the two philosophers were cordial, although Spinoza at first distrusted Leibniz, who in turn referred to him privately as 'a Jew expelled from the synagogue for his monstrous opinions'. Since the fundamental assumptions behind their two systems are profoundly similar, it is perhaps not surprising that the two philosophers – whose conclusions are wholly opposed – should have treated each other with a certain caution.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.