Mistrust Quotes

“We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay.

"Fuck," he muttered. "Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky."

"I heard that, Clayton," Cassandra said as she walked in.

"Who the hell forgot to lock the door?" Clay said.

"You were the last one in," Elena murmured.

"Damn.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic

“I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.”
― craig ferguson

“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”
― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

“Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“I'd not trust sai King much further than I could throw his heaviest grandfather.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“After all, belief was like glass - once broken it could be pieced back together but the fissures would always be there.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“He gives me a smile, a strange light in his eyes. 'If we were capable of putting mistrust aside, we might be a formidable pair.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“In Jung’s view, “the mass State”—his term for government and its structures—has “no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.” Jung asserts that when we come to perceive “the other” as someone to be feared and shunned, we risk the inner cohesion of our society, allowing our personal relationships to become undermined by a creeping mistrust. By walling ourselves off from a perceived other, we “flatter the primitive tendency in us to shut our eyes to evil and drive it over some frontier or other, like the Old Testament scapegoat, which was supposed to carry the evil into the wilderness.”
― Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border

“Therese frowned, floundering in a sea without direction or gravity, in which she knew only that she could mistrust her own impulses.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Her mother had always said that when a man kissed your eyes shut, he is lying to you.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“The individual journey that people take down the funnel of misbelief reflects a societal journey into mistrust. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, and no matter where you are in the world (with the possible exception of Scandinavia), it is hard to escape the ways in which our society's level of trust is decreasing, with alarming consequences.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Be the cure, not cause, of mistrust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Government surveillance is a violation of our intrinsic right to privacy, a breach that extends beyond legal boundaries into the emotional terrain of fear and mistrust. The toll on individuals subjected to constant monitoring is profound, casting a shadow over the very notion of personal freedom. Trust, a cornerstone of any democratic society, crumbles in the face of surveillance overreach, fostering an environment where citizens feel hesitant to express themselves openly. Historical examples, such as the COINTELPRO program, illuminate the dark potential of unchecked government surveillance, highlighting the imperative to acknowledge its unlawfulness and safeguard the emotional well-being and trust that are essential for a thriving society.”
― James William Steven Parker

“And, sometimes...

Silence can be a suffocating blanket, shrouding our relationships in a fog of misunderstandings. Without open communication, we become mere guessers, interpreting silences and sighs as pronouncements of discontent, breeding resentment and mistrust.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“If they give you reasons to mistrust them, then make them trust you to do exactly so, and without further delay.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“What he can't bear is when he has to act as nursemaid, for Ernesto mistrusts children instinctively. He thinks they're cunning, clever, wiser in many things than their scrubbed little faces reveal. Those eyes, so penetrating and so new, have an unerring way of exposing the more shameful secrets and stupid weaknesses of the grown-ups. Ernesto feels a strange uneasiness at being thus observed and subjected to scrutiny.”
― Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán

“It seemed strange to me that my first commission for information should require spying on a friendly power. A few years later it would have seemed quite ordinary. Allies are willing to donate both lives and wealth to the common cause; but the exchange, honestly, of truthful information is nearly impossible. I have noticed that intelligence executives become hoarders, so miserly and overcautious that they frequently render useless vital information which has been collected at great cost in money and men.”
― Donald Downes, The Scarlet Thread: Adventures in Wartime Espionage

“All animals mistrust man, observed Rousseau, and they are not wrong.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

“The first you learnt at eight

when he called you away from your siblings

and taught you why some men

who smile at little girls

make you uncomfortable.

You painfully learnt the secret language of mistrust.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“The fourth language you learnt

when he kissed you at twenty

and you flinched.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“In English we say:
fool me once, shame on you,
fool me twice, shame on me.
In Naskarian we say:
it's not a shame to trust another,
shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Hotheaded myopic leaders are rarely entertaining to watch. They're a train wreck away from causing chaos - for everyone.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“He was frightened, and, once he recognised that, he realised he’d been frightened for a very long time, at a level so deep he hadn’t known it. One of the people he most loved had become a murderer, and he’d never trusted anyone again.”
― K.J. Charles, Death in the Spires