Quotes About Distrust

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

I mistrust all Systematisers and I avoid them — the will to a System is a lack of integrity.

The man looked up distrustfully. If you speak the truth, said he, I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! [...] out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

If I was married to a guy like that, chances are good he'd wind up being a suspicious smell in the attic

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.