Trust

Michel Aglietta (2002) - La monnaie suppose la confiance parce que c’est une dette entre la société dans son ensemble et chacun de ses membres.

Hannah Arendt (1974 interview with Roger Errera) - If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

Kenneth Arrow (1972) - It can be plausibly argued that much of the economic backwardness in the world can be explained by the lack of mutual confidence.

Eric D. Beinhocker (in The Origins of Wealth, 2006) - Foremost among norms related to cooperative behavior is a belief that life is a non-zero-sum game and that there are payoffs to cooperation. Societies that believe in a fixed pie of wealth have a difficult time engendering cooperation and tend to be low in mutual trust.

Jean-Louis Bourlanges - La méfiance systématique jacobine à l’égard de la société civile est une pathologie spécifique de l’Etat français.

Andrew Grove (Intel Chairman and CEO) - Only the paranoid survive.

Italian proverb - Fidarsi è bene, non fidarsi è meglio. English: To trust is good; not to trust is better.

Adam Smith - In civilized society, man stands at all time in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.