Distrust Quotes - Page 7

• There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Worry, Answers

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Xenophobia, Needs, Aliens

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• One thing we've learned about Donald Trump - this candidate first, president-elect, and now president - is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage.

  Ben H. Winters

  People, Enemy, President

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.

  Chris Hayes

  Twilight, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much like Africans are doing now that became like their "ghetto". Obviously, there are immense differences in Romani culture - there is more of a distrust of the outside and less willingness to integrate that stopped it from happening. The illiteracy rate is still very high, and they are still very much keeping themselves sectioned off from the rest of the community. I don't think that's going to happen with the African community.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Ghetto, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.

  Wang Jianwei

  Art, Political, Servant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

  Epictetus

  Knowledge, Wish, Trust Yourself

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Uplifting, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

  Benjamin Wiker

  World, Reason, Abstract

  Benjamin Wiker (2010). “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

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• When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

  Cheng Yen

  Gratitude

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• The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Hate, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Self, Secret

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• In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking, "what did I do wrong?" And the answer that the talk show host is giving them is convincing, in it's internal logic. It's saying, "what's wrong is the rich liberals own everything, run everything, they don't care about you; therefore, distrust them" and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Giving, Majority

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the reach of the spy services into the lives of most Americans. More importantly, he was denounced as being part of a generation that unfortunately combined being educated with a distrust of authority.

  Henry Giroux

  Spy, Important, Generations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Objectivity, Auras, Way

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• It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

  Simon Patrick

  Time, Past, Impatience

  Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.507

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• Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.

  William Osler

  Country, Attitude, Ignorance

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and other papers that have stood the test of time. [With an introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

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• O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Father, Teach

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [161]

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• Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceit, Justify

  "Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

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• Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

  Phillips Brooks

  Cheerful, New Life, Deeds

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• You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.

  Simon Romero

  Government, Healthy, Growing

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Doubt, Discontent

  Source: content.time.com

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• As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, People, Psychology

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

  E. W. Howe

  Regret, Mean, Matter

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