Quotes about Distrust

The Root of War Is Fear AT the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything. It is not merely that they do not trust one another; they do not even trust themselves. If they are not sure when someone else may turn around and kill them, they are still less sure when they may turn around and kill themselves. They cannot trust anything, because they have ceased to believe in God.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ajax blinked. Then he looked swiftly into her face. In her words, in her voice, was a sound he knew well. For the first time he saw the green ribbon. He looked around and saw the gleaming kitchen and the table set for two and detected the scent of the nest. Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put him to the death-knell question Where you been? His eyes dimmed with a mild and momentary regret.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

The power imbalance between male and female, the fear between God and humans and the enmity between humans and nature, are all described in Genesis 2 and 3 as originating not in the nature of things as God intended them to be, but rather in the collusion of Adam, Eve and the serpent, who together deny the goodness and sufficiency of the garden and distrust the good intentions of the creator.

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.