When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

~ Virginia Alison

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It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.

~ Eudora Welty

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Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

~ Theodor W. Adorno

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Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Distrust Doubt Suspicion

Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too.

~ Sarah E. Olson

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Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

~ Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Betrayal Defence Distrust

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

~ Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Betrayal Distrust

The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.

~ Connie Kerbs

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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

~ Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler Data You Distrust

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

~ Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro Distrust Cynicism Realism