#Distrust Quotes

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

“Our distrust is very expensive.”

“I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.”

“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!”

“I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.”

“Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.”

“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”

“It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.”

“I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.”

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

“Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

“Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.”

“It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.”

“They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.”

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

“Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.”

“In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.”

“Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.”

“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”

“In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.”

“The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.”