Mistrust Quotes

“We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. 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 from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay.

"Fuck," he muttered. "Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky."

"I heard that, Clayton," Cassandra said as she walked in.

"Who the hell forgot to lock the door?" Clay said.

"You were the last one in," Elena murmured.

"Damn.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic

“I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.”
― craig ferguson

“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”
― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

“Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“I'd not trust sai King much further than I could throw his heaviest grandfather.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Remain calm even in the mist of mistrust and accusations. Your integrity and track records will surely speak for you.”
― Wisdom Kwashie Mensah, THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY

“Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“I was astonished to see how our leaders treated him only as a threat to their power, inciting mistrust by playing on backward, anti-intellectual ideas about race and class.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“He gives me a smile, a strange light in his eyes. 'If we were capable of putting mistrust aside, we might be a formidable pair.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“After all, belief was like glass - once broken it could be pieced back together but the fissures would always be there.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Chance gave her the stink-eye. “You really outta know me better than that by now.”
“Yeah, well, every time I think I do, the snake sheds his skin and starts all over again,” she said, eyes boring into his as she said it.”
― Kayla Krantz, Rise at Twilight

“The dysfunctional home life I enjoyed made me place me reliance strictly on myself and nobody else, I trusted no one and no one should have trusted me either, I was only in it for yours truly and stood directly in the centre of the world, the only wolf in the pack.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“Therese frowned, floundering in a sea without direction or gravity, in which she knew only that she could mistrust her own impulses.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Her mother had always said that when a man kissed your eyes shut, he is lying to you.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“People can thought you’re look mean but from real it’s just a mask what you seems to protect you.”
― Karry Blues

“Failure of the corporate governments promises to the people breeds mistrust among the masses.”
― Steven Magee

“Sam didn't know how much she could trust the promise, but after the day she had had, she didn't plan on killing anyone else.”
― Kayla Krantz, Storm Breaker

“Trusting yourself is the opposite of trusting God. If you trust God totally (as you must) you must mistrust yourself. If you trust yourself, you are automatically mistrusting God.
Faith is not enough, you also need an act of will. The act of will you need is precisely deciding to trust God fully and mistrust yourself.
Modern psychology has lost its bearings when they insist that one must trust oneself. That position is un-Christian.”
― Manuel Alfonseca

“There is a convalescent quality to our friendship nowadays, as we tiptoe gently through the garden where our old hatred lies buried.”
― Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside

“If the former relationship was characterized by criticism and control, the symptoms of mistrust, then the more desired relationship is one of respect and trust.”
― Timothy Gallwey

“Be the cure, not cause, of mistrust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“The individual journey that people take down the funnel of misbelief reflects a societal journey into mistrust. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, and no matter where you are in the world (with the possible exception of Scandinavia), it is hard to escape the ways in which our society's level of trust is decreasing, with alarming consequences.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Government surveillance is a violation of our intrinsic right to privacy, a breach that extends beyond legal boundaries into the emotional terrain of fear and mistrust. The toll on individuals subjected to constant monitoring is profound, casting a shadow over the very notion of personal freedom. Trust, a cornerstone of any democratic society, crumbles in the face of surveillance overreach, fostering an environment where citizens feel hesitant to express themselves openly. Historical examples, such as the COINTELPRO program, illuminate the dark potential of unchecked government surveillance, highlighting the imperative to acknowledge its unlawfulness and safeguard the emotional well-being and trust that are essential for a thriving society.”
― James William Steven Parker

“And, sometimes...

Silence can be a suffocating blanket, shrouding our relationships in a fog of misunderstandings. Without open communication, we become mere guessers, interpreting silences and sighs as pronouncements of discontent, breeding resentment and mistrust.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“If they give you reasons to mistrust them, then make them trust you to do exactly so, and without further delay.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“What he can't bear is when he has to act as nursemaid, for Ernesto mistrusts children instinctively. He thinks they're cunning, clever, wiser in many things than their scrubbed little faces reveal. Those eyes, so penetrating and so new, have an unerring way of exposing the more shameful secrets and stupid weaknesses of the grown-ups. Ernesto feels a strange uneasiness at being thus observed and subjected to scrutiny.”
― Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán