Mistrust Quotes - page 3

Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves. (Hillary Clinton)
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. View quote
Sallust
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. View quote
Sophocles
I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians. View quote
Craig Ferguson
The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again ... It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things. View quote
Barack Obama
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. View quote
Barack Obama
Those who trusted at the wrong time and place will in turn mistrust at the wrong time and place. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans. View quote
David Richo
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump. (Janet Fitch)
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself. View quote
James Surowiecki
You can love someone you mistrust. View quote
Emily Giffin
I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly. View quote
Lauren Groff
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. View quote
Jasmine Guy
Goebbels is and always has been surrounded by mistrust and deep dissimulation. It was this mistrust that accounted for his being set down as a Bolshevist in disguise, though he cares no more for Socialism and Communism than for patriotism and nationalism. Germany? The testing ground for revolution. Socialism? Nothing but a means to an end a means to revolution, but never the goal of one. View quote
Hermann Rauschning
Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone. View quote
Karan Johar
If we see each other as obstacles to progress, our assumption is the first and greatest obstacle. Mistrust is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Our old-paradigm consciousness has guaranteed its own dark expectations; it is our collective negative self-image. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
America must get to work. In the chilled climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing winds. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education, or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and timeless absence of moral leadership. We must dissent, because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. View quote
Thurgood Marshall
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
...One thing alone can drive us, against our will, beyond these modest desires. If the next French attack against the German Empire found the Dutch among the enemy faction, at that exact moment Holland, by her senseless mistrust, would herself be precipitated into her ruin. Then, and only then, would it be necessary to attempt to put an end once and for all to the millenary struggle over the ruins of ancient Lotharingia, and once more to compel the countries of the Lower Rhine perforce to rejoin the great people whom they abandoned long ago. Holland holds in her hands the means of averting, by a just and fearless policy, these interminable conflagrations. The majestic progress of German affairs, the unity of our Empire from the North Sea to Lake Constance, the complete organisation of this unity are not to be impeded by the outcries of small peoples who cannot forget the splendour of past days. (Heinrich von Treitschke)
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. View quote
Kurt Andersen
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. View quote
Daniel Webster
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I find odd the view that a Government institution is better placed to evaluate "the technical and financial viability" of a project than a commercial bank. It may well be that our banks are deficient in the kind of expertize required for assessing projects but then what we should be doing is encouraging banks to acquire such expertize or to make use of outside, commercial, expertize. I do not believe in any case that a Government machine can provide a reliable judgement on such matters, an opinion the banking members of the committee appear to have shared, for they have prudently refused to commit themselves to accepting its advice. I myself tend to mistrust the judgement of anyone not involved in the actual process of risktaking. View quote
John James Cowperthwaite