Distrust Quotes

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain

Power, Give, Others

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

Life, Motto, Natural

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes

Yourself, Feeling, Working

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
Ron Fournier

Leadership, Courage, Crisis

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

Down, Foot, Thin

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas

Duty, Authority, Civic

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, Liar, Everything

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

Lives, Action, Improve

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

Good, Done, Different

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
Eric Alterman

Government, May, Situation

I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein

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

Best, Alone, Others

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Frank Langella

Time, Water, Stay

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
Robert Teeter

Work, Government, Working

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
Andrea Riseborough

Fear, Enemy, Feeling

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

War, Between, Security

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

Acceptance, Division

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

Strength, Happy, Seen

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

War, Nation, Used

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
Douglas Hurd

Growing, Europe, Grown

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

Modern, Among, Nations

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
Pratibha Patil

Faith, Everything, Doubt

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
Edward Dmytryk

Family, Long, Career

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
Barry Hannah

Life, Writing, Done

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman

Parents, Ourselves, Seem

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley

Sometimes, Authors, Kittens

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

Real, Understand, Problems

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