Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

You can't trust people.

Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.

Let no such man be trusted.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Trust makes way for treachery.

In trust I have found treason.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

Here is a company that is a traitor!!

A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

When you have a president who in my opinion has cheated on his wife, he will cheat on the American people.

Evidence that has surfaced has cast a black cloud of distrust over our entire society. Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

I'm a natural-born trust-buster.