Distrust Quotes - page 8

Kennedy was not impressed by military objections. The Bay of Pigs had taught the President to distrust the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The first advice I'm going to give my successor,” he once said to his journalist friend Ben Bradlee, "is to watch the generals and to avoid feeling that because they were military men their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.”4 During the missile crisis Kennedy courteously and consistently rejected the Joint Chiefs' bellicose recommendations. "These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor,” he said. "If we...do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.”5. (Robert F. Kennedy)
When the government uses "divide and conquer," it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other. Thus, they don't affiliate. The consequence is that everyone distrusts his neighbor. But everyone trusts the government. View quote
Robert LeFevre
The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. View quote
William H. Seward
The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it. View quote
François Fénelon
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. View quote
Stephen Covey
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. View quote
Josefa Iloilo
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. View quote
John Buchan
I have always placed my highest and most permanent hopes upon the eternity of the Communal situation. The greater the political progress made by the Hindus, the greater, in my judgment, will the Moslem distrust and discontent become. All the conferences in all the world cannot bridge over the unbridgeable, and between these two communities lies a chasm which cannot be crossed by the resources of modern political engineering. View quote
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. View quote
Václav Havel
We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true-if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred-all those things-you will find those too. (Alexander McCall Smith)
Distrust interested advice. View quote
Aesop
One cannot observe it objectively without being impressed by its curious distrust of itself-its apparently ineradicable tendency to abandon its whole philosophy at the first sign of strain. I need not point to what happens invariably in democratic states when the national safety is menaced. All the great tribunes of democracy, on such occasions, convert themselves, by a process as simple as taking a deep breath, into despots of an almost fabulous ferocity. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. View quote
Tamora Pierce
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. View quote
James Russell Lowell
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. View quote
Nicole Krauss
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics. View quote
Paul Dirac
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves? View quote
Pratibha Patil
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I was angry with you about him, furious that he so much as set eyes on you. I would rather kill you than see you lie in his arms.” "is that love then? A thing that leads to murder?” "I don't know. In all honesty, I don't know. You're mine. What's mine I keep, I rule, and give my body over to defend. I offer you my honor, and my life. That's not an easy thing. Its within your power to break my pride, and take that life, insignificant though it is.” "you put it very simply.” "its not. Such a gift rouses strange passions, fears of treachery, and deep distrust. I'm not immune to them.” "no one told me it would be like this. Perhaps it won't go into words, what I feel for you. Its not desire, yet I love your touch, the warm softness of your flesh against mine.”. View quote
Alice Borchardt
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. (Frank Pittman)
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. View quote
John Wooden
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention . . . View quote
Charles Dickens
[P]rogressives seem to think that conservatives distrust the government because of some esoteric philosophical theory, or because we had some weird dream involving Ayn Rand. In reality, it's because we've been told to trust the government before - and we've gotten burned, time and time again. View quote
Jim Geraghty
The United States has never actually wanted one true spy service, on the model of England's MI6. Instead, it has tried to create a first-rate spy community. That community reflects the character of our culture: it's a crazy-quilt of checks and balances, division of labor, specialization, decentralization, friendship with free nations, civilian control of the military, and a distrust of secrecy dating to the Salem witch trials. The result is an over-managed yet under-coordinated system, spanning not just dozens of U.S. agencies, but dozens of other governments, and even nongovernmental organizations. It includes not just the CIA, the FBI, and the Pentagon, but functional partners in British and Israeli intelligence, treaty alliances such as NATO and SEATO, and even information sharing with transnational entities such as the United Nations, the Vatican, and Google. View quote
Mark Riebling