Distrust Quotes
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
Horace Greeley -
Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.
Eric Holder -
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.
Alphonse Daudet
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I distrust all television doctors.
Seth MacFarlane -
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood -
It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
John Ruskin -
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.
Robert Zubrin
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Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
Stephen Covey -
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'
Claude Simon -
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet -
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
William Shakespeare -
...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature. Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
Epifanio de los Santos
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There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
Ray Bradbury -
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.
Georgie Anne Geyer -
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
Benjamin Wiker