Mistrust Quotes

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

I trust no one, not even myself.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

I would rather betray others, than have others betray me

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares. What has come over you that you are so completely given over to suspicions quite unworthy of a great nation? What more can I do than I have done? I declared with all the emphasis at my command… that my heart is set upon peace, and that it is one of my dearest wishes to live on the best of terms with England. …. To be forever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinized with jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your press … bids the people of England refuse my proffered hand and insinuates that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince a nation against its will ?

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

It is important not to trust people too much.

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

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.

People never believe you.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

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're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

The worm is not to be trusted.

No one in China has a solid belief or trust in society.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

One never really knows who one's enemy is.