Distrust Quotes

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. (Michael Jackson)
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. View quote
Henry L. Stimson
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? View quote
George Eliot
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. View quote
Frank Herbert
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go. View quote
Louis MacNeice
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Seek simplicity, then distrust. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. (E. M. Forster)
It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. View quote
Confucius
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. View quote
Franz Boas
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. View quote
Edward Abbey
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. (Frank Langella)
I distrust anything that you don't hear. View quote
Leo Ornstein
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. View quote
Norman Douglas