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Tag Name "Distrust" (237)

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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
Nicolas Walter
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields
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Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.
Robert Breault
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Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Brian Herbert
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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
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
Rita Dove
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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
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As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
H. L. Mencken
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Golda Meir
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein
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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
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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
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There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.
Gretel Ehrlich
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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...
Randall Jarrell
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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
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In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
W. H. Auden
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It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.
Anna Julia Cooper
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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
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Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
Marshall McLuhan
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I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
Francis Quarles
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