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  • It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  • I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).

    Hate   Believe   Men  
    "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper. Volume 2, Chapter 24: "Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason", 1945.
  • I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.

    Believe   Struggle   Fall  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

    Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72
  • What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

  • In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

  • I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

    Real   Cities   Heaven  
  • I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

    Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989
  • Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

  • Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.

    Sweet   Stars   Flower  
  • Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

    Baby   Kids   Thinking  
    Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.274, Open Road Media
  • Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

    William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226
  • Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

  • Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

    Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”
  • The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

    Feelings   Mind   Lasts  
  • You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

    Life   Giving Up   Past  
    Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor
  • Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

  • For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

  • I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

    Clever   Men   Cases  
    Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (2012). “Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century”, p.99, tredition
  • If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

    Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.43, Souvenir Press
  • Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

    Color   Years   Voice  
  • Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  • One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books
  • The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

  • I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

    Sweat   Easy   Mistrust  
  • Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

  • Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.657, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

    Funny   Humor   Profound  
  • America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

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