Mistrust Quotes

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

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

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

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.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.