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Quotes About Distrust

Fraud is corrosive, but so is claiming fraud where there is none.
~ Miranda Devine
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
~ Pierre Jean de Beranger
Though I believe you're a good lad. But you're the sort of fellow to set a whole division by the ears… A regular… what's 'is name? A regular Dreyfus!" "Did you think Dreyfus was guilty?" Tietjens asked. "Hang it," the General said, "he was worse than guilty—the sort of fellow you couldn't believe in and yet couldn't prove anything against. The curse of the world...
~ Ford Madox Ford
nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
And underneath, Robin Wilson is a deranged freak! Why she doesn't like any of us after all we did for her, I'll never know. But it's the mark of a sick person.
~ Francine Pascal
I never intended to marry - because I've never met a man I could trust. She raised her head slowly. I trust you, Matthias.
~ Francine Rivers
I never intended to marry. Because I've never met a man I could trust. She raised her head slowly. I trust you, Matthias.
~ Francine Rivers
Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.
~ Frank E. Peretti
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
~ Frank Herbert
Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
~ Frank Herbert
I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: May be dangerous to your health. One of the most dangerous presidents we had in this century was John Kennedy because people said Yes Sir Mr. Charismatic Leader what do we do next? and we wound up in Vietnam. And I think probably the most valuable president of this century was Richard Nixon. Because he taught us to distrust government and he did it by example.
~ Frank Herbert
I never could bring myself to trust a traitor," the Baron said. "Not even a traitor I created.
~ Frank Herbert
All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
~ Frank Herbert
Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It
~ Frank Herbert
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
~ Frank Herbert
I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?
~ Frank Herbert
Yueh ventured a thin smile, thinking: I believe it has worked. Now, she'll think anything unusual in my manner is due to embarrassment. She'll not look for deeper reasons when she believes she already knows the answer.
~ Frank Herbert
I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat
~ Frank Herbert
He hates his God Emperor! No . . . he fears him. But don't we always hate what we fear?
~ Frank Herbert
All governments needed to remain under suspicion in their time of power.
~ Frank Herbert
All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power
~ Frank Herbert
All governments need to remain under suspicion in their time of power.
~ Frank Herbert
Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.
~ Frank Herbert
Como todos os sacerdotes, vocês logo aprenderam a chamar a verdade de heresia. Cinismo! Sem dúvida alguma, deve ser um crime pior que a heresia.
~ Frank Herbert