(87 quotes found)
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
T.S. Eliot
“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
Tennessee Williams
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert
“When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you”
Niccolo Machiavelli