Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher

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

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert

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

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.
Butler Shaffer

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Josefa Iloilo

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
Tom Daschle