The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

— Robert A. Heinlein

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

— Edward Abbey

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill…

— Loung Ung

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.…

— Demosthenes

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women.

— Nikhil Saluja

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

— William Shakespeare

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust…

— I. A. Richards

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

— Phil Zimmermann

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

— Anonymous

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang