distrust [Theme]
I live in the places where the greatest crimes in history were committed. Perhaps this is what helps me understand the gorilla and his mistrust.
- Innocent, you say? Look at all this food. While the Baroness and her six are filling their bellies, my people are dying of hunger!
You offend some with mistrust, and tempt others. I have paid enough for my trust, but I have not changed my rules.
We are so dependent on the opinions of others that we allow the crowd to be the judge and arbiter of our behavior; we sacrifice anything to be considered “the same as everyone else.” We strive for universal recognition as a reward, we are afraid to be different from others, because this causes a reaction from society: distrust, rejection, suspicion. As a result, we inevitably become part of the homogeneous mass, and this gives us self-confidence and a feeling of acceptance and love, but at the same time we are oppressed by a feeling of loneliness, internal anxiety and lack of personal identity.
Quote Explanation: Chapter 2
Lack of trust doubles your cost of doing business.
Test your friends first and do not make close acquaintances with everyone. If you make a wide acquaintance, do not trust everyone, because the world is fermented with deceit. Choose as your friend one brother who fears the Lord, and cleave to God as a son to his father, because all people, with the exception of a few, have given themselves over to wickedness; the earth was filled with vanity, worries and sorrows.
Bad rumors don't mean you're an asshole. At least not always.
“With all due respect, General, the military has done enough damage already. Cobra will deal with it on its own.
The older you get, the less often you will hear the word "forever" from you. It will be very difficult to fall in love with you, it will be almost impossible to charm you with appearance or beauty. Before you say something, at first you will be silent for a long time, thinking over every word, and then you may not say them like that ... You will evaluate people by completely different qualities. Distrust will become your close friend. And if you fall in love with someone, it will be for a very long time, and maybe for life ... Do you think this is growing up, premature old age? No, this is a normal life experience.
"Mutual distrust," Joseph Stalin liked to repeat, "is a good basis for cooperation." In the summer of 1939 in Europe mutual distrust was total. No oaths of friendship, cooperation, detailed agreements gave confidence even in the very near future.
The consequences of gullibility are to be feared more than the consequences of distrust.
The more you try to look honest, the more you are distrusted.
- Of course. After all, that's exactly what I'll do.
- If you are not even capable of fighting, then you are of no use as an ally. You don't deserve to be Kanade's successor!
Her grace was betrayed by so many and so often that she easily believed the worst about anyone. The treachery of her grace was no longer surprising. She began to expect it even from those she loved the most.
