#trusted

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#burden #considered #extent #had #harming

God has entrusted me with myself. ↗

— Epictetus

#god #me #myself

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#hard #i #just #know #never

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ↗

— James Madison

#certain degree #degree #distrusted #having #men

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beginning #business #define #did #even

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#council #effect #entrusted #guaranteeing #lebanon

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#capitalists #controversial #fact #finally #i

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#consumers #done #ethically #pointless #trust

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fittest #less #loves #more #more or less