Misplaced Trust Quotes

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

English politicians and diplomats are somewhat naive. They find it difficult to credit really bad intentions in others.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

What's interesting to 'Vikings' the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he can't hear reason, and he's probably so insecure about Ragnar that he won't take his advice. And straight up, honestly, if you ever have to say to someone, 'Hey, remember, I'm the king?' It's too late, and you've lost your authority.

A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

We turn to experts to tell us the future, even though they have not the foggiest idea themselves. It is a practice that goes back thousands of years.