Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from… — Bertrand Russell
A usurper always distrusts the whole world. — Vittorio Alfieri
If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves. — Shakti Gawain
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from… — Thomas Jefferson
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think… — Harold Brodkey
The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie. — Vladimir Lenin
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt. — Henri Nouwen
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is… — Alexander Hamilton
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. — Ronald Reagan
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. — James Madison
Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you… — Rolf Dobelli
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. — Frank Langella
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed… — Lewis H. Lapham
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin
Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a… — Deepak Chopra
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his… — Thomas Jefferson
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. — Vaclav Havel

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