Mistrust Quotes
133 quotes by 115 authors
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like…
— Adam Gopnik
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If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
— Edgar Quinet
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We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
— George H. W. Bush
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If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
— Jasmine Guy
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have…
— Gary Hamel
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The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.
— Ismail Haniyeh
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
— Joseph Joubert
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Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
— David Mixner
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down…
— Barack Obama
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Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for…
— Tariq Ramadan
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
— Albert Schweitzer
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I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest…
— Will Self
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In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics;…
— Will Self
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Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
— James Surowiecki
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end…
— H. Rider Haggard
Who Wrote These Mistrust Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 133 Mistrust Quotes, led by these top contributors: