Karl Kraus Quotes

I lack trust in others.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

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

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

Growing up, there were not many people I trusted. There are stories for days about how my attitude was. A lot of it's true. A lot of it's not true.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.