Mistrust Quotes

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Both, Tyrant, Deprive

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Kindness, Sun, Makes

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama

Religion, Sacrifice, Down

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Sophocles

Trust, Blossoms, Dies

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert

Respect, Future, Past

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
Jennifer Aniston

Marriage, Doubts, Fears

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Daniel Webster

Wishes, Concerned, Judgment

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good, Evil, Person

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust

Good, Bad, Others

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
Jasmine Guy

Black, Racism, White

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
William Watson

Hate, Children, Blindness

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay

Life, Place, Church

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
Lilli Palmer

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Good, Impulses, Nearly

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.
Ismail Haniyeh

Between, Palestine, Conflict

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
William Collins

Fault, Superior, Finds

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
David Mixner

Change, Fear, Pain

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.
Steve Mitchell

Great, Racism, Everyone

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