“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
Lewis H. Lapham
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
T.S. Eliot
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
Tennessee Williams
