Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Both say to the other "I don't trust you and will not take any chances, but I ask you to trust me and take the chances which that involves.

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

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

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

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

In the Prime Minister, we have a man who has forfeited the right to be believed or to be trusted.

Fear begets suspicion and distrust and evil imaginings of all sorts, till each government feels it would be criminal … of its own country not to take every precaution [armament], while every Government regards every precaution of every other government as evidence of hostile intent.

... community is already in process of disillusion where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy.

People don't trust anything anymore. We don't trust our government. We don't trust our automobile makers. We don't trust our pharmaceutical houses. We don't trust our doctors or our hospitals or our cops. We don't trust Congress. And a lot of Americans don't trust the president of the U.S. So the media are simply regarded as another piece of the American establishment. People think we're trying to get away with something, trying to pull the wool over their eyes, trying to push an agenda..

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

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

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.