Lord Salisbury Quotes

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

I am very suspicious of people.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

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

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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.

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..

As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

I don't really trust nobody.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

I don't trust anybody.