“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”
“...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.”
“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
“There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”
“Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?”
“Men are appalling.. We never really grow up, well not on the inside. It's all just an act. Don't ever trust men, we're dreadful. Enjoy us, use us, abuse us, but never trust us." - HAM”