It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. — Benito Mussolini
Short Mistrust Quotes
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
I want to do something to change the mistrust towards politicians. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
We must dissent from the fear. — Thurgood Marshall
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. — Chuck Palahniuk
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. — E. M. Forster
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. — John Churton Collins
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. — James Madison
Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
Crucible Quotes
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given. — Wintley Phipps
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it. — Abigail Williams
I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned. — Abigail Williams
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart. — Moroccan Proverbs
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! — Arthur Miller
We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house. — Theodore Roosevelt
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. — Arthur Miller
Distrust Quotes
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
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. — A. B. Simpson
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. — Norman Douglas
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all. — Saul Bass
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue — Roy Jenkins
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H. L. Mencken
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. — Antjie Krog
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives? — Gavin de Becker
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
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. — Thurgood Marshall
Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it. — Paula Scher
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach. — Bernard Arnault
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer
He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips. — Nelson Mandela
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. — Barack Obama
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust. — Arnold J. Toynbee
If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people of Iran go to the United States to see America, this can shorten the walls of mistrust and improve the situation for the future. — Hassan Rouhani
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action. — Aristotle
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest. — Will Self
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. — Ivan Krastev
I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time. — Eric Cantona
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly. — Christian D. Larson
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known. — Michelangelo Antonioni
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power. — Jean Tinguely
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. — William Collins
Constant Kindness can accomplish much. — Albert Schweitzer
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society. — J. Michael Bishop
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else. — Ben Kingsley
Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause. — Rebecca West
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. — Denise Scott Brown
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky. — Mason Cooley
I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them, as well. — Gerhard Richter
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls. — Theodore Dalrymple
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