Mistrust Quotes

133 quotes by 115 authors

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and… — Daisaku Ikeda
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of… — Dalai Lama
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain… — Edward Ruscha
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot… — Eric Shinseki
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and… — Anthony de Jasay
I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some wayâ€¦ what is more important is a feeling of strength… — Richard Diebenkorn
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust,… — Charlotte Bronte
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not… — Carl Sagan
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. — Moliere
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is… — Gerhard Richter
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, itâ€™s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of… — James Morcan
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack… — Jon Stewart
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. — Sallust
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. — Jean Racine

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