Quotes about Distrust

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.

Satan's constant assault is aimed at our belief in God's goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan's main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because he was strong instead of merely lucky.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

I'm frightened. Of us.

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Always their men would be fighters, quick to take offense, slow to forgive. To their children and to their children's children they would hand down their love of race, their personal loyalties, their stubbornnesses, their distrust of governments, their servility to no man. These are their strengths and their weaknesses, their glory—and sometimes, Christy, their damnation.