logo

Quotes About Distrust

Las mentiras de los poderosos nos hacen desconfiar de gobiernos y grandes empresas.
~ Sam Harris
The lies of the powerful lead us to distrust governments and corporations. The lies of the weak make us callous toward the suffering of others. The lies of conspiracy theorists raise doubts about the honesty of whistle-blowers, even when they are telling the truth.17 Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.
~ Sam Harris
las investigaciones indican que los mentirosos confían menos en aquellos a quienes mienten que si no les mintieran; y cuanto más dañinas son sus mentiras, menos confían en sus víctimas, e incluso menos les agradan. Parece que los mentirosos suelen despreciar a las personas a las que mienten para preservar su ego e interpretar que su conducta está justificada.
~ Sam Harris
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
~ Samuel Johnson
The young man, who intends no ill, Believes that none is intended, and therefore Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.
~ Samuel Johnson
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness
~ Samuel Johnson
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People are always willing to believe the worst about someone.
~ Sandra Brown
Thatcher looked over to see if there was an innuendo behind the question
~ Sandra Brown
of the window, while another occupied
~ Sandra Brown
Dios nos salve de todos aquellos que quieren salvarnos y nos salve también de los que supuestamente deben protegernos
~ Santiago Gamboa
but distrust is no match for kindness administered consistently and unmeasured, especially in creatures new to the world.
~ Sara Pennypacker
Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.
~ Sara Shepard
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
~ Sara Shepard
Never under estimate a pretty little liar.
~ Sara Shepard
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
~ Sara Shepard
Did you really believe I was Toby? Puh-lease. I would have killed myself too. I mean, honestly - ew. He totally had it coming. Karma's a bitch, and so am I - just ask Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer....
~ Sara Shepard
counted because things in my life had a way of disappearing on me, and I'd learned not to trust what I thought was there. What
~ Sara Zarr
And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.
~ Sarah Dessen
Don't trust the natives, Olivia has told me, but I was already a step ahead of her. I didn't trust anyone. Not for directions, not for rides, and not for advice either. Sure it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened – good bad or anywhere in between – it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
~ Sarah Dessen
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.
~ Sarah Dessen
Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
~ Sarah Dessen
Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
~ Sarah Dessen
Strange how you could barely know a person and they were still able to bring out the worst in you.
~ Sarah Dessen