Quotes About Distrust

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

The animosity that the overwhelming majority of Americans felt toward domestic communists and their sympathizers between 1917 and 1944—an attitude that typically was more intense and more consistent than the public's generally distrustful but varying views of the U.S.S.R.—helps to explain why America's international/domestic Cold War developed so swiftly after the wartime alliance with Russia ended. U.S.-Soviet

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't listen, whispered Faber. He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.

Thinking a man good, we risk his duplicity. Thinking a man bad, we deny sanctuary.

He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust—just uneasiness—nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be.

Conrad's distrust of democracy sprang from his doubts whether the propagation of democracy as an aim in itself could solve any problems. He thought that, in view of the weakness of human nature and of the criminal character of society, democracy offered boundless opportunities for demagogues and charlatans

Mr Verloc felt the latent unfriendliness of all out of doors with a force approaching to positive bodily anguish.

Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust, but your minds.

there is always a worry that voters will be attracted to populists and extremists who attack the establishment that has created this unfair system21 and who make unrealistic promises of change. Distrust

El aumento de las desigualdades corroe la confianza; tiene un impacto económico similar al de un disolvente universal. Crea un mundo económico en el que hasta los ganadores son precavidos. Y los perdedores… En toda transacción, en todo contacto con un jefe, una empresa o un burócrata, ven la mano de alguien que quiere aprovecharse de ellos.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you