Quotes about Distrust

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.

I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.

People who have no capacity to trust suspect the motives of others. I know this is true because I had a real problem in this area. Even when other people told me they loved me, I was always waiting for them to hurt me, disappoint me, fail me, or abuse me. I figured that they must be after something; otherwise, they would not be nice to me. I just could not believe that anyone would want me just for myself. There had to be some other reason!

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

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

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.