The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Success has always been a great liar.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.