Distrust Quotes - Page 7

• A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

  Russell B. Long

  Loyalty, Integrity, Government

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• A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Design, Prudent, Appearance

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Laughter, Wit, Tyranny

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Attitude, People, Profound

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

  Wes Fesler

  Flames, Deceit, Heat

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• It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Hot, Abnormal

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.555, Ageless Reads

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• He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

  Laozi

  Trust, Taoism, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Ancient

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.65, Routledge

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Mutual Interest, Together

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• Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Country, Party

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.376

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• I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

  Harold Brodkey

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

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• The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Leader, Bourgeoisie

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• I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Hurt, Doubt

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1989). “Heart Speaks to Heart: Three Prayers to Jesus”

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• The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Acceptance, Natural, Seems

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• Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate.

  Sydney Banks

  Sports, Hate, Mean

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• Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tolerance, Proof, Ideals

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• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Attitude, Frustration

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

  Cheng Yen

  Gratitude

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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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• 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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• 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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