“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”
Edward Hoagland
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred...”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone
“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
Susan B. Anthony
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert
