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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Distrust'

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We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Josefa Iloilo, Fijian Statesman (1920-  )
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President (1908-1973)
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Frank Langella, American Actor (1940-  )
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis, American Comedian
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell, American Poet (1819-1891)
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer (1469-1527)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken, American Writer (1880-1956)
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Author (1892-1950)
I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein, American Composer (1892-2002)
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman, -
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
Ludwig Quidde, German Critic (1858-1941)
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher (1788-1860)
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.
Butler Shaffer, -
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman (1867-1950)
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher, American Politician (1951-  )
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.
Robert Teeter, American Politician
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple, -
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau, American Author (1817-1862)
 
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