Distrust Quotes

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, God, Death

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Relationship, Inspiring, Trust

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Parent, Liberty, Caution

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Trust, People

  "The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert". "Mother Earth News", No. 69, May/ June 1981.

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• In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Anger, People

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

  Golda Meir

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hate, Conclusion, Lack Of Faith

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• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  William E. Gladstone

  Trust, Fear, People

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• The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

  Jean Racine

  Feelings, Mind, Lasts

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• On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Hilarious, Women

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Water, Comfort

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Simplicity

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

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• I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.

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• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

  Malcolm Cowley

  Kind, Sometimes, Kitten

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Confidence, Gun, People

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• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

  Franz Boas

  Civilization, Disease, Corny

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• What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, People, President

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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