Pastoral Resources

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

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

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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

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

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

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.