Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I distrust official charity. All charity should be done by stealth.” — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Let worthy minds ne'er stagger in distrust To suffer death or shame for what is just” — E. R. Eddison Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work. — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy,… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and… — Alice Stone Blackwell Copy Share Image
Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“An interesting parade of expressions passed across Drake’s face. I ran across the floor to him, putting my hands on his chest as… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress,… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
