Distrust Quotes

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

— Andrew Carnegie

I distrust all television doctors.

— Seth MacFarlane

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

— Margaret of Valois

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

— Alfred North Whitehead

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

— George Eliot

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

— Benjamin Franklin

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

— George Will

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

— Samuel Ullman

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

— Dennis E Adonis

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

— Samuel Johnson

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

— Franz Boas

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

— Ben Shapiro

“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.”

— John Jay

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

— George Gilder

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is…

— Henry L. Stimson

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last…

— John Brunner

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

— Charles Krauthammer

“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group…

— Amitav Ghosh

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

— Alasdair Gray

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust…

— Vladimir Lenin

I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical…

— Paul Dirac

You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because…

— Simon Romero

Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was…

— Chris Hayes

Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have…

— Jill Stein

I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all…

— E. M. Forster

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact…

— Lin Yutang

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes…

— Benjamin Franklin

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair…

— John Piper

“We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you…

— C. JoyBell C

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the…

— Carl Rogers

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the…

— Douglas MacArthur

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.…

— Peter David

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was…

— Gertrude Stein

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity…

— Christopher Hitchens

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the…

— Michel de Montaigne