Quotes about Distrust

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

How could this congregation of Christians so unthinkingly absorb the world's fearful anxiety and hateful distrust—and so easily?

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived. And on the other hand, Every man is a liar,(3) weak, unstable and frail, especially in his words, so that one ought scarcely ever to believe what seemeth to sound right on the face of it.

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.