Distrust Quotes
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection.
Pierre Lemieux
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
H. L. Mencken
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence
Hugh Blair
The best thing for being sad,†replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.
Theodore H. White
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
Hugh Blair
Also there was considerable distrust of planning in any form. Planning was something the government was going to do to you. The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion, unfortunately.
Lewis Mumford
I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. They may be idealists and desire to make a new world, or they may simply be artists, loving for its own sake the pursuit of truth. If I were to hazard a guess, I should say that it took both types to bring about results, for the second find the knowledge and the first the will to use it.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.
James Bovard
