(95 quotes found)
“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
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
Tennessee Williams
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
“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
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“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”
