Government Distrust Quotes

#1. Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

Ben Shapiro

#2. Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad habit of being suspicious, the Church of France seems to have realised that books are its real enemies.

Stendhal

#3. It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means.

Henry Hazlitt

#4. Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

Eula Biss

#5. The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

Edmund Morgan

#7. COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Recognize all mankind as one, whether Hindus or Muslims The same Lord is the creator and nourisher of all: Recognize no distinctions between them. The monastery and the mosque are the same, So is Hindu worship and Muslim prayer. Men are all one!

Amardeep S. Dahiya

#9. While these attitudes are more visible when directed 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

#10. The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Edward Abbey

#11. I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

Jemima West

#12. No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

George Will

#13. Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

Eric Alterman

#14. Something that is loved is never lost.

Toni Morrison

#15. I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only absolute.

Ayn Rand

#16. I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

Eula Biss

#17. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Phil Zimmermann

#18. A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

Russell B. Long

#19. Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

Dennis E. Adonis

#20. Life's not fair. Life's often complicated, leaving us to deal with things that we shouldn't have to. Life can make you smile one day, only to leave you broken into tiny little pieces the next.

Lisa De Jong

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

Frank Herbert

#22. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Frank Bruni

#23. But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.

Jeff VanderMeer

#24. We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

Robert Teeter

#25. No one can give you the answer because there is no answer.

Marty Rubin

#26. A mystery carries on but an answer just ends." The

Jonathan Renshaw