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Quotations on Distrust 26 Quotes Found The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust. Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. 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. But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. 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. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. |
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