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• Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Humanity, Matter, Moments

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer. Translated by C. T. Campion as "Philosophy of Civilisation" (1949) Chapter 26, 1923.

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• Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Insecurity, Doubt, Pandora's Box

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• Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

  James Surowiecki

  Mediums, Capitalism

  "The Business-Movie Business". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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

  Lilli Palmer

  Sweat, Easy, Ifs

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• Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Delight, Carefree, Pathology

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Humor, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  Edgar Quinet

  Satisfaction, Infinity, Possession

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72

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• I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, People, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.

  Vera Nazarian

  Responsibility, Two, Together

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• We must dissent from the fear.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Racism And Prejudice, Dissent

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

  William Watson

  Children, Hate, Hatred

  William Watson (1892). “Poems”

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• One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, People, Embarrassed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

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• I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Long, Conspirators, Has Beens

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

  Duke of Wellington

  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

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• 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.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Religious, Men, Color

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• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

  David Mixner

  Pain, Two, Democracy

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• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  Sallust

  Kings, Virtue

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• 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.

  Hugh Mackay

  Meaningful, People, Church

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• Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Faults, Subordinates

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• The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

  Adrienne Rich

  Poverty, Transcendental, Glamour

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