Mistrust Quotes

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

I think Republicans so mistrust Barack Obama, that if Barack Obama says Putin is terrible, they will be some Republicans who just take the other side.

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

You can love someone you mistrust.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

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 generation to come.

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles.

Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.

Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.

Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage few minutes, you are likely to waste 24 hours no matter how many times it’s given to you!

Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste - if you're lucky.

You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.