The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
“ "Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes." ” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry… Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“It's hard to get close to people and have fulfilling friendships if you always suspect people are hiding things from you.” — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well,… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy,… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
