Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

- Aristotle

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

- Daniel Webster

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

- Gamal Abdel Nasser

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

- Ismail Haniyeh

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

- Ivan Krastev

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

- John Burnside

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

- Lilli Palmer

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

- Victor Hugo

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

- William Collins

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

- William Watson