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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


Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world, it is thin. - Edna St. Vincent Millay


I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony


We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau


He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. - Norman Mailer


A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it. - Samuel Johnson


The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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