Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Ivan Krastev
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
Lilli Palmer
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Sophocles
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
William Watson
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo