trust erosion Quotes

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

The question is not whether granting the government [this] authority makes us incrementally safer, but whether the additional safety is worth the sacrifice in terms of individual privacy, personal liberty and public trust.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

On Wall Street, the industry in which I grew up, a culture in which 'my word is my bond' shifted over the past few decades toward one where the big print can say 'Free' while the small print gives the real costs.

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

Like confidence, legitimacy can vanish in a hurry and once lost, is very difficult to regain.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.