William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!"
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Distrust
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Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"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."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
Vaclav Havel
Politician, Playwright
"There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them."
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"Distrust unsolicited advice."
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny."
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"Distrust interested advice."
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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."
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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."
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"Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself."
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"It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in."
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"I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings."
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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!"
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"Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust."
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"Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women."
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"Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit."
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"Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other."
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"In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust."
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"Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others."
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"Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals."
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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."
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"The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be."
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"Seek simplicity, then distrust."
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