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

The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.

They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

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

Only sneaky people and impostors can oppose the progress of sciences and can discredit them, because they are the only ones to whom the sciences do harm.

There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election for proof of that.

I'm suspicious about people interested in saving other people's souls.

When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.

Foolish people... When I say foolish people in this contemptuous way, I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there's one person I do despise more than another, it's the man who doesn't think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves.