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Distrust Quotes

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Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
Roy Jenkins

Authors on Distrust Quotes: Francois de La Rochefoucauld William Shakespeare Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Alfred North Whitehead Aesop Wang Jianwei Friedrich Nietzsche Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Ronald Reagan Anne Carson Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexander MacLaren Georg C. Lichtenberg Edward Abbey Roy Jenkins Anthony Hopkins Queen Rania of Jordan Leo Ornstein Thomas Jefferson Francois Fenelon Vaclav Havel Benjamin Franklin Jules Feiffer Idries Shah Alan Moore Pete Hautman Henri Frederic Amiel Seneca the Younger Allen W. Wood Ursula K. Le Guin Neville Cardus Edmund Burke
2.
O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
William Shakespeare

3.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
Andrew Carnegie

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When you disarm your subjects, however, 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

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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman

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The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
Francois Fenelon

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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
Vaclav Havel

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Distrust unsolicited advice.
Aesop

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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes

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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein

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When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen

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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Edward Abbey

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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
George R. R. Martin

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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
Tamora Pierce

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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
George Eliot

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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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Distrust interested advice.
Aesop

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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet

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I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Edmund Burke

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Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah

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Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.
Maria Gowen Brooks

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I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
Anthony Hopkins

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Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
Louis MacNeice

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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Seneca the Younger

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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Alexander MacLaren

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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson

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In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
Ronald Reagan

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Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
Amelia Barr

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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.
Wang Jianwei

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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
Queen Rania of Jordan

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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.
Wang Jianwei

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I distrust all television doctors.
Seth MacFarlane

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I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.
Pete Hautman

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I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.
Jules Feiffer

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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Wendell Phillips

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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Pierre Omidyar