Quotes about Distrust
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.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
— Samuel Johnson
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
— Robert Frost
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
— Marilyn Monroe
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
— Oscar Wilde
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
— Martin Luther
Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.
— Os Guinness
As Pascal wrote long ago, "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
— Os Guinness
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
— Genesis 26:10
And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
— Genesis 31:2
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
— Genesis 31:15