Richard Helms Quotes

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

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

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

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

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

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

Secrecy necessarily breeds suspicion.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.

There is not a single human being that I trust!

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.

You can't trust people.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

I lack trust in others.

I trust no one totally.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

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

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.