Quotes About Distrust

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Buzzards don't make good friends. They always have an interior motive.

Virtually every politician portrayed in film or on television over the last decade has been venal, corrupt, opportunistic, cynical, if not worse. Whether these dramatized images are accurate or exagerated matters little. The corporatist system wins either way: directly through corruption and indirectly through the damage done to the citizen's respect for the representative system. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

You can't trust even thieves these days.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from Steel Beach

They do the work, and he gets all the money. They think he's a crook, and he thinks they're fools. You can't blame either side; they're both right.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you. I am a person, very unfortunately for you, with a quite peculiar dread of thrusting myself or my affections on any one, of in any way outstaying my welcome. The man I would love would be the man I could trust to love me for ever. I do not trust you. I did outstay my welcome once. I did get thrown into the gutter, and came near drowning in that sordid place.

If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper - watered down - variety.

Mulder' she said gently. 'They don't want you involved. They don't want to hear your theories. That's why Section Chief Blevins has you hidden away down here in the basement.' Mulder didn't seem at all hurt by this. 'You're down here too,' he pointed out cheerfully. Scully slumped in her chair... Couldn't he ever take no for an answer?

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."

Nasceu com boceta? Vai ser enganada. Traída, humilhada.

Pe românii de la Paris evit cît pot s?-i v?d: în genere sunt intriganÅ£i ÅŸi r?spîndesc zvonuri false. In plus, nu sunt de nici un folos penici un plan

Orice om care nu moare de foame este suspect.

Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true that we regret ignoble gestures almost as much.

He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him.