Knowing who to trust is everything in this business. Die Another Day 2002 starring Pierce Brosnan & Judi Dench & Halle Berry & Toby Stephens & Rosamund Pike & John Cleese & Samantha Bond et al, director Lee Tamahori, M
Because that’s the job – deciding who to trust. Page Eight 2011 starring Bill Nighy & Rachel Weisz & Holly Aird & Ewen Bremner & Judy Davis & Tom Hughes & Felicity Jones & Marthe Keller & Alice Krige & Saskia Reeves & Michael Gambon & Ralph Fiennes et al, director David Hare, Nighy
Without trust there is no friendship. No closeness. None of the emotional bonds that make us who we are. Star Trek: The Next Generation s4e6: Legacy, Riker to Data
How can I ever trust you again? Star Trek: Voyager s3e13: Fair Trade, Janeway to Neelix
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Thomas Jefferson
Whom should a man trust in this world when there is no thing real in it? Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1973 starring Keith Michell & Donald Pleasence & Charlotte Rampling & Jane Asher & Frances Cuka & Lynne Frederick & Jenny Bos & Barbara Leigh-Hunt & Brian Blessed et al, director Waris Hussein Henry
Put not your trust in princes. Psalms 146:3
Distrusting me was the wisest thing you’ve done since you climbed off your horse. Game of Thrones s1e4: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things, Petyr Baelish, HBO 2011
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Of course you can trust me. Don’t it show in me face? Ken Loach, The Wednesday Play: Up the Junction, Terry, BBC 1965
I need both of you to trust me right now. Breaking Bad s5e14: Ozymandias, Walter to Skyler & Walter junior, HBO 2012
Carolyn: Apparently, I’ve lost their trust.
MI6 Agent: Is that something you’ve ever wanted to find? Killing Eve s3e1, BBC 2020
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust. Can you believe what you see on television? Does television treat people fairly? Is it healthy for society? Jeremy Paxman, Edinburgh TV Festival 2007
Trust no-one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ***** 2011 starring Gary Oldman & Colin Firth & Tom Hardy & Mark Strong & Ciaran Hinds & Benedict Cumberbatch & David Dencik & Stephen Graham & Simon McBurney & Toby Jones & John Hurt & Kathy Burke et al, director Tomas Alfredson, Hurd opening scene
It’s awfully easy to lie when you know that you’re trusted implicitly. So very easy. And so very degrading. Brief Encounter 1946 starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard & Stanley Holloway & Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond & Everley Gregg & Marjorie Mars & Margaret Barton & Alfie Bass & Wallace Bosco & Sydney Bromley et al, director David Lean
Ghosts of the past were returning at the margins in England too. In August 1999 a farmer in Norfolk called Tony Martin shot two burglars who were travellers; he killed one of them called Fred Barras … Martin was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction touched off a wave of protest. On the surface it was about Martin’s right to defend himself. But it also expressed a much wider feeling that was simmering under the surface. That the very institutions that were supposed to protect the people – the law, the police and the politicians – were now being turned against them. A growing sense that you couldn’t trust those in power any longer. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head IV: But What if the People are Stupid? BBCiplayer 2021
Money has created a society where nobody believes in anything, and nothing can be trusted. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Dyke seemed to be a sort of different animal at the BBC. He wanted to shake things up. David Dimbleby, Days that Shook the BBC II: Trust Matters, BBC 2022
It only takes one mistake to land the BBC in real trouble. ibid.
Alastair Campbell: ‘They’d [BBC] better issue an apology pretty quick.’ ibid. evidence to parliamentary committee
The Hutton Report is published … ‘Hutton vindicates Blair, Campbell, and damns the BBC’. ibid. news
Hutton Report: ‘An appalling and really quite disgraceful piece of judicial nonsense.’ ibid. Ian Hislop
The Jimmy Savile scandal: One of the worst in the BBC’s history, and yet again it screws up. ibid.
If we can’t trust you to investigate your own organisation, how can we trust you on the big issues that affect all of us. ibid.
So we have two big scandals, and on both occasions the only thing to do to regain public trust is the man at the top to go. ibid.
Of course you can trust me; I’m a cop. Internal Affairs 1990 starring Richard Gere & Andy Garcia & Nancy Travis & Laurie Metcalf & William Baldwin & Annabella Sciorra & Elijah Wood & Michael Beach et al, director Mike Figgis
Trust is a weakness I’ve never been able to afford. Gomorrah s5e8, Gennaro to Lil Monk, Sky Atlantic 2021
What happens when Americans lose faith in all their democratic institutions including the Supreme Court? Bottom Line: Do Americans Trust the Supreme Court? Al Jazeera 2023
For more than ten years Americans have been saying that they’re losing faith in the people they are supposed to trust. ibid.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald
Behind that website are real people. And it’s those people you need to trust. Trust No-One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, Netflix 2022
Did a Crypto CEO Fake His Own Death to Abscond With $190 Million? ibid. online news report
Bitcoin went from relative obscurity to front page news. ibid.
Bitcoin rose and rose and rose. And ultimately it crashed. And I think that was the beginning of troubles at Quadriga. ibid.
To come out with a statement a month after he’s dead sounds phoney. ibid. victim
We were basically robbed by Gerald Cotton. ibid.
Quadriga co-founder served time in US prison for role in identity-theft ring. ibid. The Globe & Mail online
Gerry was a serial scammer. ibid.
Mr Cotton lost approximately $150,000 by essentially gambling it. This is where it turned into more of a Ponzi. ibid. forensic accountant
The enemy of your Ponzi scheme is people leaving the Ponzi scheme. ibid.