Distrust Quotations

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

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

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

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

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.

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

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

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.

Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

I distrust anyone with a slash in their job description. I've met too many actor/waiters and too many rock musician/electricians.

Let's work together and build together, and as we do that, the real solution will begin, ... The real healing process will begin, and we will erode the distrust of the past.

He is ultimately a man of distrust. Mr. Duplessis engaged in the same dialogue of distrust toward Ottawa.

What you have is someone with a fundamental distrust of government rolling the dice, cutting taxes and programs, and having it come back to bite him. It shines a spotlight on the fact that many of his budget decisions, in hindsight, look like mistakes.

There is growing distrust we see from the investing public. There is a responsibility of the New York Stock Exchange that we address those issues.

Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello emanates.

He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

It is an effort to cope with the declining reputation of the party and the distrust of the people toward party officials.

It certainly was not decisive in the loss of credibility for this government. But it was one instance, when taken with a host of other instances, which has led to a great deal of distrust in this government.

Most Iraqis are really cool people. I picked up some of their language. There are good and bad people everywhere. So many people there lived under fear. They distrust the military because it's scary for them.

You can feel that in the music, just the unease and the distrust of the things that satisfy people, and make people feel good.

My character has a distrust of government as Big Brother, ... He doesn't see why this should be kept secret from the public.

The people of Alabama just have a general distrust of government. They don't want to give (lawmakers) discretion.

There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

There is a vein of distrust in the marketplace for many big deals. They are viewed not as a safe haven, but a financial bailout for the issuers and the shareholders of the parent company.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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

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

Distrust interested advice.

Distrust unsolicited advice.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

We're seeing basically complete distrust in financial accounting in the Western Hemisphere. People are going to pack it up and go.

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

And what that translates into is the public distrust of decisions or lack of respect.

What bothers me is suddenly there's this inherent distrust of the judiciary, ... Suddenly, we're blaming everybody we can blame.

We are voicing distrust in the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus...and demand that the supreme legislative body urgently hold a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Republic's Council.

Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the outset.

I've got to confess, I've always had this distrust for the whole industry. Maybe it's horror stories about people with garages full of Amway products.

If people don't know each other, they distrust on another. Okay. Lets get to know each other. Let's sit down and chat and iron out our gripes. Many people ridicule and disparage Hollywood because a few irresponsible representatives have given it a black eye.

In the capital market in Russia or in attracting foreign investment, distrust of all the foreign investors in Russia is a serious problem.

He's a person who did not put the appearance of ethics above all else. That is not the way the government should function. These are the kind of things that make the general public distrust government.

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

All of a sudden, Latin America is saying that the U.S. is not playing by the same rules as everyone else and this provokes an underlying distrust of the U.S..

The distrust is enormous. I hope somebody out there is listening who controls these prices.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

The number has grown at an alarming rate in recent years, but due to a deep distrust of the police, many abductions are not reported and receive little media coverage.

There's a lot of deep distrust with the accord in the military.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men

It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,

I do not enjoy the distrust on our work and so much questioning,

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

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.

I distrust all television doctors.

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

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.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

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

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

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

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.

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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

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

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.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Our distrust is very expensive.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

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