Quotes About Distrust

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Agreement between those of unequal power is inherently suspect. (page 102)

People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

Within a week or two the calm returned between us, but something was missing. Dad could feel it, too. The first casualty of distrust, I learned, is familiarity. My father saw me as a slightly different person now.

Once you realize how flawed, corrupt, worthless, and evil people are, their lies won't bother you as much anymore.

Never trust sheep.

He catches the thieves that lie in the hearts of their pure and respectable wives. And he compares them to the purity in the heart of a whore in a brothel.

Dünyada bir tek insana inanm??t?m. O kadar çok inanm??t?m ki, bunda aldanm?? olmak bende art?k inanmak kuvveti b?rakmam??t?.

Namuslu adam kalmam?? bu dünyada iki gözüm.Müslümand?r,namaz?nda,orucundad?r,hakk?m?z? yemez diyorduk ama,biz onun hat?r?n? sayd?kça o,bizim tepemize bindi.Eh,art?k çocuk de?iliz,yemiyoruz bu numaralar?,de?il mi ya?

You won't try to kiss me again?" "Given your method for handling that problem? No. I don't particularly like pain.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

I hadn't hustled in the streets for years for nothing. I knew when I was being set up.

One morning, though, I came in and found signs that my room had been entered. I knew it had been detectives. I'd heard too many times how if they couldn't find any evidence, they would plant some, where you would never find it, then they'd come back in and find it.

No sane black man really believes that the white man ever will give the black man anything more than token integration.

it was chiefly the women who weren't prostitutes who taught me to be very distrustful of most women; there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay. And I am talking about both black and white.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you[?]

If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

By this time I was thoroughly terrified, not so much fearing death as the treachery of my own kind.

The world is full of weapons if you're looking for them.