#distrust

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance. ↗

— Nuala O'Faolain

#dreams

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#distrust #friend #friendship #friendship

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food. Adults are the death of hope. ↗

— Peter David

#adults #childhood #children #distrust #hatred

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ↗

— George Eliot

#loneliness #lonely #more #than

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

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

#differences #distrust #diversity #division #happy

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conservatism #distrust #fear #liberalism #people

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#distrust #down #foot #set #thin