Civic Distrust Quotes

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?

Today, with the war between Muslims and the West escalating, you cannot count on the message of solidarity you may get from a civic group or a political party, or the word of support you hear from a kind neighbor or a nice co-worker. The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.