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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Not Giving Up, Never Giving Up

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• A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Trust, World, Usurpers

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 197), 1922.

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• When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Demand, Desperate, Cowardice

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Works”, p.225

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

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

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• I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Sacrifice, Careers

  Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown

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• The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

  Aldrich Ames

  Real, Resistance, Problem

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• I distrust anything that you don't hear.

  Leo Ornstein

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• When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, War, Government

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• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Growing Up, Years, Europe

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• Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Opportunity, Competition, Democracy

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• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Philosopher, Motto

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.104, Cambridge University Press

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  Piers Anthony

  Princess, Thinking, Rose

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• Seek simplicity but distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity

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• Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Opposites, Risk

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• However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, May

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• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Insecure

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• I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Justice, Violence, Source

  'Qu'est-ce que la littèrature?' in 'Les Temps Modernes' July 1947, p. 106

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• The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

  Jane Porter

  Anxiety, Doubt, Overcoming

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• It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

  George Eliot

  Trying, Difficult

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.18, Modern Library

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• However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Sincerity, Stills

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

  John Wooden

  Want, Too Much, Miserable

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