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
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
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
“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
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes. — Wallace D. Wattles 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
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
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear… — Georgie Anne Geyer Copy Share Image
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder)” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“NONE HAS FAILED IN THEIR LIFE TRUSTING ME AND NONE HAS SUCCEEDED IN THEIR LIFE DISTRUSTING ME, I AM THE JUSTICE” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Just a warning that on April Fool's Day my natural distrust of others will be ratcheted up to a level bordering on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
