Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. — Wendell Phillips
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used… — Ellen Tauscher
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because youâ€™re timid… — Saul Bass
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand… — Aldrich Ames
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually… — F. Lee Bailey
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore… — Mark Slouka
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. — Edmund Waller
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes… — Elizabeth I
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we… — Donald Miller
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world â€¦ those who cannot control themselves… — Saul Leiter
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go.… — Dalai Lama
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest,… — Dalai Lama
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others.… — Gertrude Stein
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear… — Antjie Krog
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
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our… — Benjamin Franklin
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of… — Thomas Brooks
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence — Jean-Paul Sartre

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